Document Type : Original Article
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Firuz Aslani. Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran.
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Mohammad Sobhani Yamchi. Associate Professor, Holy Quran University of Sciences and Education, Maragheh, Iran
10.22034/qc.2025.514220.1159
Abstract
The growth of empiricism in the contemporary era led to its expansion to all dimensions of existence, and empirical science, whose function was to study natural matters, forced it to comment on non-sensual matters. Some Iranian thinkers also began to interpret the extraordinary matters of the Quran scientifically based on such an attitude. Since such an attitude deprives extraordinary matters of their supernatural and extraordinary aspects and turns them into something natural, the present study sought to explain, using a descriptive-analytical method of a library, what the scientific interpretation of extraordinary matters in contemporary Iran includes, and how such interpretations are evaluated in terms of accuracy and validity. According to the findings of the research, the splitting of the sea has been interpreted as the tide, the spring flowing with Moses' staff as mechanical actions, the white hand as radioactive, the mountain falling as its slope, the resurrection of the dead by Jesus as the enlightenment of the ignorant, the Namlah as a tribe of humans, the Ifrit as colored people, the Hudhud as messengers, the Ababil as smallpox, and the Prophet's ascension as cosmic journeys. These interpretations are not consistent with the context, literal and apparent implications of the verses.
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