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One of the main methods in the interpretation of the Holy Qur’an, being discussed and analyzed by Muslim commentators throughout history, is exploring the texts of chapters to discover their main theme. This paper aims to explore the main theme of Surah Al-Ahzāb for revealing its intra- textual context. Based on the descriptive-analytical method and as a library research, the paper clarifies and analyzes the context, the content structure, the internal motifs, and the main parts of the Surah to discover its practical aim. Findings show that Surah Al-Ahzāb cognitively and functionally has a particular purpose, due to its being Madanī. The reason is that in the civilized stage, Islam reached a position where people needed to strengthen their faith and manifested it in their actions. That is, they sought to find a solution to a particular issue. Therefore, the fundamental and cognitive purpose is “theology in the light of firm faith and piety” and the practical and functional purpose is “obeying God and His Messenger (doing righteous deeds) and not following the evil”.

The term “Tolerance” is among vocabularies of “hopefulness” in Islamic texts. God, The Exalted, expresses this spirit of hope in Qur’anic verses repeatedly in order to provide a suitable circumstance for men to escape from darkness and then reach the safe point and guidance, paving the ground for taking people to the “Perfection”. This term has not been used in the Qur’anic verses, but the words related to this meaning are expressed there. The purpose of this research is to identify the related vocabularies and notions to Tolerance in the Holy Qur’an in order to have sound recognition of the term. The results show that words such as “repentance”, “forgiveness”, “blessing”, ṣafḥ, and “drowning anger” have a meaningful relationship with the concept of Tolerance (tasāmuḥ and tasāḥul). These applications prove God has shown the practical usage of this term to the servants so that they perceive this concept in a tangible way and cultivate the spirit of Tolerance in themselves.

One property of innocents` speech is regarded as reference to the holy Quran. Her holiness Zahra (s) in her sermons, when necessary, has relied on the holy Quran as document. These documentations may be known as one of the most important exegetic sources. Most usage of these relations lies in developing the field of traditional commentary. This paper has studied exegetic applications of Quranic documents in Zahra`s sermons and their frequency and emphasized on the very Quranic documents rather than the content of the verses and sermons. As is explained, Zahr`s usage of Quranic verses has been for clarifying some meanings, jary and tatbiq, conceptual and objective expansion of the verses as well as for relying on the holy Quran. In the ground, explaining meaning, referring to correspondence of verses, her reliance on Quranic verses and conceptual and objective expansion of verses have been counted as the most applications respectively.