Al-Missbah journal

Dr. Abdul Jabbar Naji is well-known for mass dealing with orientalization and is considered the famous pioneer in that field. Al-Missbah has already published many of his works concerning that. Here he discloses the secret behind which the orientalists, mostly the Jews, pay much attention to the question of collecting the Qur\'an and writing it down during the Prophet’s era and the Caliphs later. The article is unique as the writer has probed orientalists’ styles when dealing with an important matter about which Muslims widely differ.
Because the article is long and important, Al-Missbah has divided it into parts to publish it wholly. Here we are doing so.

The article studies some verses of punishment legislated by Almighty Allah which the Arabs practiced before Islam. The Arabs quoted some of them from pre-Islamic religions .When Islam came; it rectified and confirmed them paving the way to apply their rules.
The writer starts with explaining the meaning of some social crimes that necessitate punishing the criminals. Then he talksabout them in detail mentioning the verses related to each crime. He depends on accurate trusted grammatical, eloquent and exegesis books. Thenhe shows his conclusions followed by a list of the main resources he has depended on.

The writer has sent a group of Articles to Al-Missbah among which Al-Missbah has chosen two field ones because they show the Qur’anic attitude towards matters the modern interpreters have not given decisive ideas. They are:
1. A claim pretending that the Holy Qur’an uses non-Arabic words ; and are they really so? Some deny that they are not found in the Qur’an as it is perfectly Arabic in words and style. So how is this contrast by claimers solved?.
2. Qur’anic facts concerning unity of religion in the heavenly religions (like Hanifism,Judaism, Christianity and Islam) as the Qur’an calls peoples of those religions ‘’Muslims’’. The Holy Qur’an witnesses that the Torah and Gospel are from Allah, but they are really ‘’The Bible‘’ which we have nowadays?.
Other topics are dealt with analytically and in detail.
It is worthy saying that in his introduction, the writer appreciates Al-Missbah and its way of spreading the Qur’anic sciences.

The research presents a topic of knowledge tools that philosophers adopt
Islam in Islamic civilization and Islamic thought. He counted the philosophers
Islamists both the senses, the mind, the heart, and revelation are tools for obtaining
On knowledge of man.
In the research, the concept of knowledge and its relationship to perception were clarified
And knowledge, and then touching on revelation, which is a channel of knowledge related to
Specialists are scholars, through the Holy Quran that is prepared
Revelation connecting heaven and earth. This is followed by the vision of) Jalaluddin
Rumi (on the question of revelation and its connection with the author of revelation, humans and reason
And the sciences in his famous poem B (al-Masnawi al-mu'awawi).

It is a simple article, in presentation and examples, that shows the good conducts of the Qur’anic discussion. The writer presents the Qur’anic style in the dialogue between faithful and deviating forces. In other words, the guided forces were represented by prophets and the pious while the opposite were the unbelievers of the nations who stood against the prophets.
The writer depends on the Holy Qur’an as the comprehensive source to reinforce his examples in a simple way (i.e.) away from ambiguity and complexity.

The scholar Abu Zakariya, Yahya Ziyad Al- Farraa (d. in 207 A .H.) is considered one of the first linguists who realized the phenomenon of syllepsis, (interpreting the Qur’an through meaning), in the Qur’anic style. He brought out many Qur’anic verses which follow that phenomenon as it did not oppose Arabs speech and their styles.
The researcher, here, tries to examine this stylistic phenomenon in the Holy Qur’an to which Al-Ferraa had paid attention in his book (Me’aaniAl-Qur’an) like:
- Connection with meaning.
- Putting (a word) in the masculine form or the opposite.
- Talking about the dual in the form of singular or the opposite.
- Using the past form to refer to the future or the opposite.
- Using enallage.

The article studies the metaphorical verses that decide the six attributariesof Almighty Allah:(Istiwa ala al-arsh); settlement on the Throne ,(Yadullah); Hand of Allah, (Wejhullah); Face of Allah, (Aynullah); Eye of Allah, .(Nefsullah); Allah’s Self and attributing some actions to Him like plotting and mocking.
The two researchers study these matters within the descriptive method and through the two rhetoric phenomena (I.e.) metaphor and similarity. They conclude that such attributions represent metaphorical expressions which are far away from human understanding.
The wisdom behind using metaphor in showing those concepts, they say, is to bring meaning nearer to mind (I. e) to realize them. This way of making others understand is a clearer and stronger image than pure words.

It is an astronomical Qur’anic article dealing with this huge cosmic heavenly body because it is widely mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. The sun is the most prominent star which is much described in the Holy Qur’an. Because of its importance in this earthly life, its relation with the moon and how finally declines and vanishes, the sun, here, is widely dealt with.
The writer uses evidences from the Holy Qur’an which was revealed tothe Holy Prophet including firm huge cosmic facts. Those facts are well proved by the complex modern discoveries away from the images and myths drawn by primitive nations concerning the sun in particular. As a result they worshipped it and attributed many earthly miracles to it.

This article studies the Qur’anic text as a comprehensive text including and explaining everything. Applying this comprehensive approachin under standing theholy text, the writer deals with six topics:
- Variety of reading the Qur’anic text.
- Abundance of the Qur’anic text.
- Comprehensiveness of the language of the Qur’an.
- The external and inner style of the Qur’anic language .
- The Qur’anic text between poetry and prose.
- The Qur’anic image.
Finally ,the writer concludes a vision that the text should be read in
the light of the approach the text itself names, not interpreting it according to a method far away from its targets.

It is an artistic, critical and rhetoric article dealing with the stories of surat Al-Kahf in a pictorial way. Firstly the story of the Seven Sleepers (Companions of the Cave), secondly, the story of the two owners of thetwo gardens, thirdly the story of Moses (p.b.u.h.) and the pious worshipper and finally the story of Thul-Qarnein and his wandering in the east and west.
All these matters are shown by the writer in a tactful accurate literary criticism.

Muhammed Ibn Jareer Al-Tabari (d. in 310 A.H.) Is considered the first to write a detailed methodological interpretation of the Holy Qur’an titled
[Jamie’ Al-Bayan fi Tefseer Al-Qur’an] in which he discussed the question of the Qur’anic ways of reading (recitation) of the Holy Qur’an.
- Here the writer shows Al-Tabari’s attitude towards these ways (readings) according the criteria which Al-Tabari saw as the standard way of correct reading. Al-Missbah has chosen some applications and examples to the above title to suit the capacity of the bulletin (in number of pages) to publish. Sorry for the writer about that with our highly appreciation to his fruitful deductive research.

The original title of the article was [The Role of Harmony Indulgence and Non-Violence in Consolidating Social Affiliation and Coherence through the Holy Qur’an], but we thought that the title is too long to cover a short article. So we reshaped it as it is above.
The article discusses the main visions on topics like peace, indulgence, non-violence and affiliation because those ideas represent the important resources to the Islamic society. It is worthy saying that the Islamic community will keep the need to such theories and that the Holy Qur’an talked much about all of them.
The article is divided intopreface , topics and a conclusion including summary of the article then the main recommendations which the two researchers direct to the Islamic community.

This brief study focuses on the position of the Qur’anic evidences and readings in the Arabic linguistic system especially in controlling the grammatical rules of language. This is to distinguish the correct speech from the incorrect according to the ancient and modern grammatical rules.
The article goes asfree speech for an introductionto the above- mentioned title.

Mr. Abid is still providing Al-Missbahwith philosophical articles which deal with the rational analysis to the external meaningof words mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. Those words can not be understood externally (i.e.) according to their lexical meanings as simple minded people do. Such people ignore the miraculous and rational styles the HolyQur’an adopts to urge people to think rationally.
In this article the writer deals with two words mentioned in the earlier scriptures and the Holy Qur’an. They are (The Throne) and (The six days of creating theUniverse) before rising up to the Throne. The Throne as ordinary people imagine a chair made of certain material with dimensions that Almighty Allah occupies when He sits on it. While the Six Days mean the time that equals (6 X 24) hours.

The article decides that language is a means of communication having two kinds: first, verbal (i.e.) via words and second non-verbal ( i.e.) via gestures or gestural language. This study concentrates briefly on (eye language in the miraculous Qur’anic expression).
It starts with a short preface then shows the previous studies concerning this subject, then shifts from theoretical to practical examples and finally presents a conclusion and a list of resources.