فصلنامه مشکوه
پیاپی 131 (تابستان 1395)

The Holy Qur’ān has important instructive material in verses 34 and 35 of Sūrat al-Nisā about family management, relationship of spouses, and their duties and the duties of their near of kin. In the above-mentioned verses, interpretation has joined with jurisprudence and theology and created numerous discourses.
First, God has introduced management as the man’s commitment and stated two reasons for it; then, He has pointed out two characteristics of decent wives and finally stated the way to deal with the refractory and indecent women in three phases of admonition, falling out with, and punishment.
Ḍarb (beating [lightly]) is a topic that has caused the protest of the opponents and created misconception for the lowly-informed individuals.
Giving an accurate explanation of this blessed verse, this article studies the above-mentioned topic in terms of the peripheries and margins of its decree, which indicates the legal justice and a means of preventing disappointment and divorce, and mentions the affection and kindness that one has to have toward his wife.

The theoretical principles of the Islamic school of thought demonstrates a special lifestyle in all dimensions of human life, by whose implementation the happiness of this world and the world to come would be guaranteed for all people. Included in the Islamic theoretical principles are the ethical principles and one of its most essential propositions is the “speech accompanied by action”. Amīr al-Mu’minīn ‘Alī (A.S.) has constantly recommended this important principle. Taking this important issue into consideration, the present article has with the descriptive-analytical method explored into the principle of the “interconnectedness of speech and action” while stating the explicit and implicit allusions of Imam ‘Alī in Nahj al-Balāgha and then explained its necessity. The outcomes of this research suggest that the consistency and maintenance of the well-being of human life in all its fields, including the scientific, religious, economic, political, and social fields are dependent upon the ethical principle of “accompaniment of speech and action” and its institutionalization in society. People’s practical abiding by the social, political, and commercial commitment is a very suitable working method for its institutionalization.

With the prevalence of the semantic approach in the Qur’ānic studies, a new method has appeared in this phenomenon. This method is targeted at unveiling comprehensive meanings that are hidden in the layers of the text. Using Isuzu’s method and completing it in the verses relation sections within the limits of the sūra and the Qur’ān, this article has studied the word kabad first from lexical and then semantic point of view. The writer has analyzed it in several stages with the use of the words close to its meaning and contradictory to it and structural balance of the text, and then concluded that contrary to the common concept of the word kabad, this word does not contain a negative meaning and refers to the limitations of the world of matter and Divine Wisdom in man’s free will.

Security and a life free from apprehension and fear in different arenas of life is among the most indispensable and fundamental human rights. Neither any scholar and thinker has doubt about it, nor any school of thought and legal system has denied it; however, it should be seen if security is absolute and if the Islamic doctrines tolerate this absolutism in security. Or whether, depending on the conditions and behavior of people, security would be different to them?
This research is intended to explore into this issue and answer the above question with reference to the Qur’ān and the Shī‘ī traditions and jurisprudence. Thus, after studying the concept, stating the necessity and importance, and pointing out the antecedent of security, it has followed up this issue and finally proved that the idea of absolutism is an unrighteous one and is indeed a great barrier on the way to actualization of security and its institutionalization in the society.

One of the elements of having the right impression of the verses of the Qur’ān is the recognition of the meanings of its words. To this end, the specific convention and the customary meanings that exist in the Qur’ān for some words are to be taken into consideration. On the other hand, the words of the Holy Qur’ān are taken as their common meanings in the age of Revelation. In this research, the meaning of the word ṣa la ḥa and its derivatives in the Qur’ān are discussed about. By studying and summing up the material stated in lexicons and books of interpretation about the word ṣa la ḥa and its derivatives and in regard to all the verses in which these words are employed, it can be said that the word ṣa la ḥa means righteousness. The above word and its derivatives in the Qur’ān are perhaps employed with the meaning that when we take human goals into consideration, if a man, or an action, or a relation is righteous; that is if it has features that can provide for the goal sought by man, this word is applied to it. Nevertheless, it is sometimes brought up concerning goals other than human’s ultimate goal and perfection and sometimes concerning human’s ultimate goal and perfection.

The sound ḥadīth has its standards with the transmitters of ḥadīth and researchers, by the help of which it is distinguished from the non-sound and weak ḥadīth. These criteria are considerably different to the earlier transmitters of ḥadīth from the criteria existing with the later transmitters of ḥadīth. These differences are due to the evidences that are at the disposal of each of these two groups; many of the evidences of the first group are not available to the second group; and this very issue is considered as the source of disagreement between the two groups concerning the sound and weak ḥadīth. This article studies and analyzes the viewpoint of Shaykh Kulaynī and Shaykh Ṣadūq, two of the most distinguished scholars trained in the Qum school of ḥadīth, concerning the sound and weak ḥadīth in different legal, theological, and interpretational fields, and explains the status of sound and weak ḥadīth with the earlier and later transmitters of ḥadīth and the way they dealt with these two categories of ḥadīth.

According to the code of procedure of the Commission for Evaluation of Iranian Scientific Journals, the journals with scientific-research or promotional ranking are required to provide an annual list of their articles. In addition, in the age of communication and at a time of information explosion, thematic categorization and arrangement of the articles is an approach for processing information and instant access of researchers and the book-reading community to the published works.
Mishkāt Quarterly has several times provided the thematic index of its articles (issues 100, 110, 121). What is presented in this issue is the alphabetical-thematic index of the ten recent issues arranged on two topics of “Qur’ān and Ḥadīth” and “Islamic History and Islamic Culture”. The general trend of the content of most of the issues of the journal in the ten recent issues has been noticeably toward articles of the Qur’ān and ḥadīth”.