Literary Reasons for Extra-contextual Implication in the Quran

Some ayahs of the Holy Quran, besides the meanings they convey through co-text and context, have an implication capability ignoring textual context. In the present study such meanings are termed as extra-contextual referents. Discovery of these implications, accompanied by a commitment to the principles and criteria of exegesis, is possible through separation and segmentation of Quranic propositions or developing a perspective beyond the straits of co-texts of ayahs. Having characteristics such as equivocality, implicational universality in concise structures, polysemy and the repetition of statements in different conceptual contexts, all of which being due to the literary nature and the special literary structure of the Quran, the matchless expression method of the Quran allow the validity of extra-contextual inferences. In this study, which takes a descriptive-analytical approach and is based on Quranic linguistic and literary features, we tried to validate this semantic approach to explicating ayahs, relying on original resources in Quranic studies and literary references while presenting examples and evidence from the Quran. The findings show that in interpretive narrations of Ahl al-Bayt too, extra-contextual referents is recognized as valid.