Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Quran and Hadith Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD Student in Quran and Hadith Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Muhammad Rateb Nabulsi, a contemporary Syrian Arabic-speaking Quran scholar, is a follower of the school of scientific interpretation and has written a two-volume collection on the interpretation of some verses of the Quran with contemporary scientific data. One of the verses that Nabulsi has interpreted in this book is verse 37 of Surah Al-Rahman, which Nabulsi has applied to a space phenomenon; meaning that, in his opinion, the verse in question is about a stellar explosion in space, which resulted in the formation of a red nebula resembling a flower. At first glance, the following article finds this interpretation inconsistent with the appearance and context of the verse and has attempted to place such an interpretation of the verse in the context of appropriate criteria such as context, syntax, astronomical and linguistic data and, in this way, evaluate it. As a result of conducting such an investigation, it was found that the authenticity and validity of the interpretation presented by Nabulsi regarding the aforementioned verse did not withstand any of the criteria used, and the weakness of its foundations and foundations was clearly revealed to the audience.
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