In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Classification Of ALMIZAN THE INTERPRETATION OF HOLY QURAN BY: Great Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Taba Tabaii BOOK THIRTY ONE SPECIFICATION OF THE HOLY QURAN and HISTORY of its REVELATION, ARRANGEMENT, and INTERPRETATION Edited, Summarized, Classified, and Translated by: SEYYED MEHDI AMIN
2 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One & " ALMIZAN, THE INTERPRETATION OF HOLY QURAN" Image of Allameh ( Oil Painting. Work: Seyyed Mehdi Amin, 1991 )
3 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One CONTENTS: BOOK THIRTY ONE SPECIFICATION OF THE HOLY QURAN and HISTORY of its REVELATION, ARRANGEMENT, and INTERPRETATION ( Red Lines have been Translated! ) QURAN, THE BOOK OF GOD, AND WHAT WE SHOULD LEARN ABOUT IT! Chapter One: Revelation and its Variants 13 Definition of Revelation and its Various Aspects: 13 1 Definition of Revelation 13 2 Effects and Results of Revelation 14 3 Content of Revelation 14 4 Revelation and Descent of the Book and the Standard 15 The Types of Revelation: Revelation, and Knowledge to the Detailed Education Is All the Words of the Prophet a Revelation? Concept of the Messenger, the Prophet, and the Mohaddeth: (Who Sees, Speaks with Angels, Recieves Non Prophetic Revelation): 1 The Messenger 2 The Prophet
4 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One 3. The Mohaddeth or Mohaddetheh(Female) Concept of the Phrases Used in the Verses at Ascension: 1 "Supreme Power" 2 "Lord of Strength" 3 " Established Himself on Arsh(Throne)" 4 "Highest Horizon" 5 "Then he Came Closer and Closer to His Presence!" 6 "Two Bow Lengths" 7 "The Messenger's Heart did not Deny What he Saw!"? " Chapter Two: Gabriel, the Angel of Revelation, the Carrier of the Spirit 18
5 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Three: Night of Destiny, and Descent of Quran 20 Chapter Four: The First Days of the Descent of Quran 23! Traditions about the First Stages of the Descent of Quran:
6 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Analysis of above Narrations, and their Faults:! Chapter Five: History of Collecting the Quran Chapter Six: Specifications of the Contents of Quran
7 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One a. The MaKki Surahs (85 Surahs, Descended in Mecca) B. The Madani Surahs (28 Surahs, Descended in Medineh) Fragmentary Letters Fragmentary Letters Fataha-tol- KetabThe First Surah of Quran Bismillah al-rahman al-rahimin the Name of Allah The Merciful Beneficent!" Chapter Seven: The Purpose of the Descent of Quran and its Privileges "Ahsan al-hadith! - The Best Finest Tradition":
8 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Eight: Miracles of Quran Chapter Nine: Hidden News in the Quran
9 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Classification of the Hidden News of the Last Prophet of Allah: Chapter Ten: The Interpretation of Holy Quran, and its History 1- Meaning of the Interpretation 2- Beginning Date of the Interpretation 3. First Group of Commentators 4- Second Group of Commentators 5. Traditions, and Israelites 6. Theological Discussions 7. Greek Philosophy and Rational Topics 8- School of Sufism 9- School of Dogmatism 10- The Religious Differences 11- The Differences of Interpretations Reviewing the Errors of Commentators of Different Schools: 1- Criticising the Errors of the "Mohaddesin - Narrators) 2- Criticising the Errors of the Theologians 3- Criticising the Errors of the Philosophers: Interpretation of the Quran in the Present Era: 1. Materialists, and Quran 2- Impose of Scientific Theories upon the Quran
10 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Eleven: Verses of Hidden, Decisive, and Ambiguous Meaning 1- Decisive 2- Ambiguous Chapter Twelve: Lack of Distortion or Difference in Quran Allameh Tabatabaii's Views Rejecting the Theory of Distortion in Quran:
11 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One The Issue of the Quran Scripted by Ali(AS)
12 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Part One QURAN, The Book of God, AND WHAT WE SHOULD LEARN ABOUT IT!
13 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter One Revelation and its Variants Definition of Revelation and its Various Aspects ك ذل ك يو حي ا ل يك و ا لي ال ذين م ن ق بل ك...! ( شوری ٣ و ٨ و ١٣ و ١٧) " So reveals to thee, and to those before thee, God, the All Mighty, the All Wise!" (Holy Quran: Shoura, 3) 1- Definition of Revelation: : -! The revelation that we send especially to you the prophets, one after the other, It is a running and longtime Tradition, Like the revelation you are seeing in taking this Surah!
14 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One 2- The Effects and Results of Revelation:. "And We revealed this Holy Qur'an in Arabic language that you warn People of the Mother of the Cities. And all around it, and that you warn them of the Day of Assembly about which there is no doubt; on that Day Some will enter the Paradise and some the Blazing Fire!" (Holy Quran: Shoura, 7)! The separation of the people into two sects is what the Divine Providence enacted to them, and for this reason He legislated the the religion for people, and through the revelation warned the people from the Day of Gathering, because He is the Guardian of people, and He is the One Who gives life to the dead and will judge between them in what they differ: "And We revealed this Holy Qur'an in Arabic language that you warn People of the Mother of the Cities. And all around it!" 3- Content of Revelation:
15 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One! "Allah has Determined for you the same Religion which He enjoined on Nuh, And what We revealed to you, is that which We Enjoined on Ibrahim, Mussa and Issa; And We have emphatically enjoined that You should all be steadfast In establishing the Religion of Monotheism! And do not cause any Division therein!" (Holy Quran: Shoura, 13) 4- Revelation, and Descent of Book and Criterion "God is the one Who descended the Book by Truth and The
16 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Criterion!"(Holy Quran: Hadid, 25).! (Almizan, V. 35, Pages: 15, 28, 45, and 63 Revelation without Intermediary In the Ascension of the Messenger of Allah و الن جم ا ذا ھ وي! ما ض ل صاح ب ك م و ماغ وي...! ) نجم / ١-١٨ ( " By the star when it disappears! Your well wishing Supervisor is neither Astray nor deviated from the Straight Path!" (Holy Quran: Najm, 1 18 )
17 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One " By the star when it disappears! Your well wishing Supervisor is neither Astray nor deviated from the Straight Path! Not he speaks out of his own desire, He relates to you only what is revealed To him; By the Supreme Power he has been Taught, The Supreme Powerful Who established Himself on Arsh after the creation of The heavens and the earth The One Who is on the Highest Horizon. Then he came closer and closer to His Presence, until The distance between He and he Was at two bow lengths or even nearer! From such close distance Allah Revealed His Message to His obedient Worshipper, what He Willed to reveal! The Messenger's heart did not deny What he saw with his eyes!" (Holy Quran: Najm, 1 18 ) (Almizan, V. 37, P. 52
18 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Two Gabriel, the Angel of Revelation, the Carrier of the Spirit The " Trusted Spirit " و ا ن ه ل ت نزيل ر ب العال مين ن زل ب ه الر و ح اال مي ن...! ( شعرا / ١٩٢-٢٢٧ ( "And verily, this Holy Qur'an has been sent down from The Creator of the worlds; By the Trusted Spirit has been Brought down, And has been revealed upon your heart in order that you become one of The Admonishers and the Warners; And Qur'an is revealed in a plain Arabic Languag!" (Holy Quran, Shoara: 192 227)
19 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One "As We read it, your reading should follow Our reading! That's how you read it!» (Almizan, V. 30, P. 200
20 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Three Night of Destiny, and Descent of Quran The Night, the Quran was Revealed! ( ٥-١ ا ن ا ا نز لناه في ل يل ة الق در...! ) قدر / " Verily, We sent down the Holy Quran In the Night of "Qadr Destiny!" (Holy Quran, Qadr: 1 5 ) "Night of Qadr Night of Destiny," " Ha. Mim. By the Illuminating Book of Religion, We have sent it down in the Blessed Night [ of Qadr! ]"
21 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One (Holy Quran, Dokhan: 1 3 ) " And We divided this Quran into parts, so that you may recite it to the people at intervals and with necessary pauses. And We have sent down its Words of Revelation by stages!" (Holy Quran, Assra: 106. ) " And the disbelievers said:" Why the Quran is not sent down on him all at once?" O Messenger, In order to penetrate and record it in your heart, We Reveal it gradually and with necessary Pauses!" (Holy Quran, Forqan: 32, ) Which Night was the "Night of Qadr- Night of Destiny"? (Almizan, V. 40, P. 322 & V.35, P. 210 " The month of Ramadan is one in which the Quran was sent down...!"
22 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One What is the Cencept of "QADR" (Almizan, V. 35, P. 219 " In that night all matters are distinctively Ordained by the Command of Allah, The Source of Wisdom; It is by Our Command that We send Messengers and messages; which is a Sign of Grace from your Lord to Mankind!" (Almizan, V. 35, P. 219
23 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One Chapter Four The First Days of the Descent of Quran The First Surah of Quran ا قر أ ب اسم ر ب ك ال ذي خ ل ق!... ) علق / -١ ١٩ ( "O, Messenger! Recite in the Name of Allah Who is your Lord and Who created all creatures of the universe!" (Holy Quran, Alaqq: 1 19, ) "O, Messenger! Recite in the Name of Allah Who is your Lord!"
24 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One
25 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One (Almizan, V. 40, P. 305
26 CLASSIFICATION OF ALMIZAN Specification of HOLLY QURAN Book Thirty One The Translation is to be continued!