Al-Missbah journal

The researcher tries to enumerate the affairs of the Prophet of God Ibrahim Al Khalil - peace be upon him -
With all the events surrounding his honorable life that are not easy or within
Limits of human ability to bear the likes, and concluded that the Holy Quran is
The most reliable sources that can be relied upon in recording the biography of Khalil Rahman,
If we take into consideration the exaggerations of the Jews and Christians in most documentation
Those events. Which retribution has a big role in fabricating events in it.
The researcher also touched on what was given in terms of convincing evidence
The question of who is the slaughtered of his children and proved to be Isaac. It also proved wrong
He went to the claim that his name - peace be upon him - was foreign, and that all the signs that were designated
His birthplace, no evidence of it. The research concluded with important conclusions.

Narrations concerning revealing the Qur’an, copying it, collecting it and arranging it were limited to a story carried by narrators stubborn without studying them accurately (i.e) most of those narrations are too silly to deserve arguments to prove them. The most prominent one refers to the last three verses of Surat Al-Taubah.
Narrators say that those verses were missed by Ali, Ubei bin Ka’ab, Ibn Masaud and many companions of the Prophet but were found with Abi Khuzeimah?!!. what a silly mind that believes such news which means the companions of the Prophet never cared for the Holy Qur’an!!.
It is worthy saying that orientalists have concentrated on such news for long ages. Here H.E Sayid Al-Shuhristani deals with such narrations academically and deductively. He discusses them quietly as they were mentioned in the famous books. It is the very Sayid who did that. Al-Missbah will publish his other articles in the next issues if it is Allah’s Will.

The article deals with an old phenomenon which was as old as Islam . That is (Hypocricy) and (Hypocrites).
Inspired by Almighty Allah, Prophet Muhammed (p.b.u.h.) dealt with it wisely and effectively as he preferred containment to standing against it directly.
In this article, the writer shows some of these strategies in a descriptive- analytical and described them depending on historical, interpretive and narrative sources. The writer, however, proves that the Qur’anic containment strategies of hypocrisy have been offered in two social-cultural and political sets that some are in length and are in across. Those strategies were interrelated as the Holy Qur’an described.

The miraculous style of the Holy Qur’an has been deeply dealt with since the first studies of this great book. Scholars who studied it were three groups:
First: Those who insisted on the theory of the (interior) eloquent Wondrous nature of the Holy Qur’an .
Second Those who talked about the (external) miraculous style of the Qur’an which they called (As-sirfa) (pure).
Third: Those who mixed the above two sides. Besides, there are more miraculous sides which were discovered later. The latest one is the (miraculous prestige) that which intended and hidden behind the words expressing the site of the speaker and presence of the site of the addressee.
The article contains two topics and conclusion.

In the 14th issue of Al-Missbah, the writer dealt with the theme (Inquiring Stylistic Deviation in Surat Yusuf and its effect on the creative technique of the Holy Qur'an). Herein he presents another example for that creative technique in the Holy Qur'an. He has chosen Surat Al-Zalzalah because it includes extinguished style of phonetic harmony in its words, parts, rhymes and rhythms to prove the unique style and rhythm which the Arabs had never known similar to before.

The article highlights the call of the Holy Qur'an to achieve the Islamic unity and association of community ideologically and socially though the Qur'anic verses do not mention the term (unity) directly. They refer to it through prohibiting dispersion and ordering Muslims to cling to the firm Rope of Allah. Thus, the article examines some Qur'anic texts which ordain unity through three topics:
• clear orders imposing unity.
• indirect orders imposing unity.
• obligatory sentence imposing unity (i.e.) prohibiting certain deeds and at the same time ordering people to do the opposite.

The writer studies the meanings of the term (village) and its declensions (villages-your village-our village) which are mentioned in the Holy Qur'an. He checks the meanings in the verse depending on four famous books of interpretation Al-Kashaf by Al-Zamakhshari, Majma' Al-Bayan by Al-Tabrasi, Tafseer Al-Jalalainand Rooh Al-Ma'ani by Al-Aloosi. A new Qur'anic encyclopedia called "Atlas of Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem" by Dr. Shawqi Abu Khaleel is made use of to show the locations of the villages mentioned in the Holy Qur'an.

Thul- Qarnain is a figure that represents goodness of distinguished people who were granted domination and wisdom. His story is narrated in surat Al-Kahaf (Holy Qur’an: 18) as an ideal example of the thankful pious worshippers.
The article mentions his story according to trusted narrations concluding that the Holy Qur’an kept that figure, his kingdom , the time and place of his appearance as a historical mystery for historians and geographers to deal with. It is worthy saying that the writer presents these ideas without comment. Even the ideas and analyses he shows concerning Thul-Qarnain are derived from the resources which studied that figure.
The article consists of eight topics and conclusion.

It is a practical article that studies the characters and events of the story psychologically. First the writer deals with the psychological significances of the words, then he turns to the psychological significance of the story to talk about its characters who are: Prophet Yusuf (p.b.u.h), Prophet Jacob (p.b.u.h), Yusuf’s brothers, the king , the official’s wife and others. Finally he shows his conclusions.

It is a comparative linguistic article in which the writer presents the words that Imam Ali (p.b.u.h.) quoted from the Holy Qur’an directly in his sermons. All those sermons are mentioned in Nahjul Balaghah.
In the preface , the writer deals with the eloquent style of Imam Ali (p.b.u.h.) in his sermons. Then he chooses groups of words which Imam Ali has used similarly to those of the Holy Qur’an

The writer decides that the above two words are the most honorable subjects to study and research because they include unintelligible secrets in their meanings that minds can not realize. And for this, scholars differ in comprehending their significances.
Here, the article is some sort of collecting all the ideas of interpreting them depending on books of interpreting the Holy Qur’an and Arabic lexicons. Therefore, the article is divided according to the significances in which those two words are interpreted.
Moreover, the writer studies their fixed, modernized, general and private significations. And whether there is an exaggeration in mercy or limiting the meaning of mercy.

The writer presents the great sins that Almighty Allah forbids in the Holy Qur’an starting with polytheism: Then he defines each of them showing how it harms individuals and society.
In this guiding article, the writer depends on most trustworthy resources concerning Qur’an interpretation and the Holy Hadith (Prophet’s tradition). He mentions only eighteen great sins.
Besides, the article is a direct discourse to those who ignore religion and those who mistakenly think they do good but in fact they do not.

The writer sees that Imam Hasan’s (p.b.u.h.) Qur’anic heritage had been hidden for a long time, for it had not been dealt with widely. A little bit more than twenty narrations that had been narrated via him.
The article is divided into two topics. The first one deals with Imam Hasan’s way of dealing with the unseen facts of the Holy Qur’an. While the second one studies his role in establishing ways of understanding the Holy Qur’an and explaining some fundamentals which he established theorically and practically.