پژوهشنامه معارف قرآنی
پیاپی 28 (بهار 1396)

As a social capital, family relationships are important factors in social health and social control. Industrial transformation and individualism have an impact on this relationship so that it is weakened both from the within and from the outside. The rise of social ruptures and generation gaps has also threatened family identity and put it at risk. This study examines the relationship of family support on three levels: spiritual, social and economic. Many verses in the Quran point out to functions of family support having direct relationship with socialization and social control. From the standpoint of the Holy Quran, all family members are responsible for every single civic and social action. The core of emphasis in Quran is on the “relationships” among family members as an essential element of social capital. Social capital has the largest contribution to social control with a minimum cost. Considering changes in functions and family relationships in today’s world and by citing the opinion of many scholars and Quranic verses, this article concludes that family as an important and basic institution of social life will not disappear, and its fundamental role in the generation of social support will continue.

In order to face the challenge of recent centuries in connection with the Holy Quran and dogmatic attitudes of some Orientalists about lack of the Quranic verses in the present era, scientists of the Quranic science raised the scientific magic of the Quran to defend the Holy Quran. The verse known as “Dahvalarz” (Naze’at, 30) is among the verses related to this issue. This study is a descriptive library research and shows the three wonders of the Quran about the earth namely “howness of the initial creation, the movement and spherical shape of the earth”. Thus, the meaning of the verse not only implies a theory involving the throwing the Earth from the sun, rotation and transfer as well as the spherical shape of the Earth but also represents the wonders of the eloquence of the Quran in employing the term “dahv” or “spread” indicating references from the Quran which overtake the facts of science.

Realism is considered as one of the important issues in epistemological arguments. Realism principle is such an important issue that Islam has based its invitation on it; that is, it wants a human being to act upon the tasks, turned over to him/her in the light of realism, through true understanding of verses of human life and horizons. Notwithstanding continuous recommendation to be a realist, human being usually does not care about it. Also, obstacles such as illusion, neglect, ignorance, sensual desires, and commitment of sin cause misunderstanding of realities. Thus, for the human to obey Allah’s commands and true understanding of phenomena, firstly s/he must keep away from these obstacles and secondly, should be engaged in the elements which help this instinctive talent to be materialized; among which rationality, belief in God, belief in resurrection, and piety can be mentioned. This article adopting a descriptive-analytical method tries to recognize realism’s obstacles and affecting elements and also howness of their performance after addressing realism in viewpoint of the Quran and Hadith.

This article examines the issue of violence against women from the perspective of the Quran. Firstly, the most important Quranic evidence of disagreeing with violence against women focusing on the verses related to good treatment with wives, rejecting damage (Dirar), putting pressure on women, honor accusation (qazf), oath to leaving the bed (Ila’), dismissal from the home, burring alive, and inheritance of women were analyzed. The results showed that the Quran has not confirmed any cases of violence against women. The only case that may be considered as evidence of confirming violence against women is the verse of disobedience (Noshooz) that, with a more accurate reflection, it should be detected that it is not a matter of violence against women, but of a legal penalty which husband, not as a husband but as a law actor conditionally applies it and which can remove disobedience with the lowest cost. However, in the absence of any of the conditions, the husband’s violence is forbidden and considered as a crime.

The miracle of the Quran is not confined to the rhetoric, but it has several aspects that coordination of the verses and lack of difference in them is one of them. From the very beginning of revelation, enemies by casting doubts, tried to prove contradiction in the verses of the holy Quran. One of these claimed cases of contradiction in the Quran is about the duration of creation of the heaven and earth which is said in seven verse that they were created in six days while it is induced from “Fosselat” chapter that it was created in eight days. The commentators of the holy Quran put forward five answers to this question that two of them are acceptable as the ultimate answer: 1- The four days of measurement of food in Fosselat chapter does not mean the creation of plants, animal and foods only to be eight days with four days for creation of the heaven and earth but two days is for creation of earth, two days for creation of the earth, and two days for creation of the heavens to be the total six days. 2. In Fossalat verses, only the creation of the earth is explained explicitly, so the verb “create” is used but the creation of the earth and heaven is not mentioned, so the verb “sentence” is used instead

Analyzing the issue of textual order in the Quran with a linguistic approach underlies a whole new inquiry into the structure of the Quran which sets linguistic text studies as its model to uncover a new dimension of this order. By order, the present study means not merely an investigation of semantic decorum in the classical sense of the term but the structural and phonetic structure of the Quran. The methodology adopted in this research divides the verses into micro and macro levels. After validating the methods of discovering the inner order through textual analysis, the style of authenticating the current structure, ordering inside a chapter and parsing analysis as well as extracting the structures of the verses and analyzing them were selected. At the level of meaning-oriented wisdom, issues such as creating semantic order through the presentation of specific clichés (at lexical and compositional levels), objective repetition of independent clichés, creating semantic order by focusing on a subject, creating semantic order by repeating a phrase (reviewing quick and easy repetitions, repetition of words with derivations and omissions, and reduction and addition in Quranic phrases) were investigated. By analyzing separate structures and giving a special attention to meaning alongside structure, it is possible to unravel the unity of the procedure in the text of the Quran pointing to complex and at the same time true relations among the Quranic units. It can be concluded that the order of the Quran lies in the innovative subtleties of structure and meaning at the time of revelation. The present study uses a descriptive-analytic methodology and is conducted via extensive literature review.