The What of Kingdom, Malakoot, in the Holy Quran with an Analysis of Commentators Views

The what of kingdom and its related problems have been studied by commentators and Quranic scholars. The verses referring to kingdom, 83 of Yasin, 88 of Mo`menun, 75 of An`am and 185 of A`raf, caused various views in the field. The paper has intended to study the what of kingdom and its related problems as is understood from the holy Quran at first, and then to examine the most considerable views in the field. three views may be found among commentators spoken of as public aspect of intuition, inner reality and the position restricted only to Divine friends. The second view, in addition to presenting a clear and comprehensive comment in agreement with the verses, regarding objective sample for kingdom, has prevented its being predicated to a conventional meaning. On the view, therefore, kingdom is an inner reality in the order of Divine throne spoken of as Divine aspect of things with regard to directive relation among them and is related to Divine Command, guidance, Imamate, certainty and Throne.