Quranic comentations

Quranic comentations

It is difficult to understand the verses of the Qur'an from the perspective of traditional interpretation and hermeneutic understanding

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Abrahamic Religions, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom,
2 PhD student in religious studies, Qom University of Religions and Religions, Iran
10.22034/qc.2024.488110.1130
Abstract
There are verses in the Qur'an that are a bit complicated to understand, that's why different understandings are offered for it. In hermeneutics, the same problem is interpreted as the difficulty of understanding the text. Most commentators of the Qur'an take the meaning of difficult to understand and call it the Qur'an's analogies, which refers to verse 7 of Al-Imran, and this difficult to understand refers to the Qur'an itself. Commentators have provided solutions to solve the difficulty of understanding the verses of the Qur'an, which, despite making those verses understandable, did not solve the hermeneutic difficulty of understanding those verses. Because in hermeneutic difficulty of understanding, it is not only the lack of understanding of a text that is meant, but the multiplicity of understandings about a text is enough to make the text difficult to understand. On the other hand, Gadamer, in his hermeneutics of his method, by presenting a special theory about the holy texts, believes that the difficulty of understanding the holy texts comes from the understander of that text rather than being taken from the text. Gadamer's thought system about the holy texts, especially with the fourth condition he considers for understanding,
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  • Receive Date 10 November 2024
  • Revise Date 09 December 2024
  • Accept Date 25 December 2024