| Book Title | A Study Of The Quranic Oaths |
| Book Author | Hamid Al-Din Farahi |
| Total Pages | 206 |
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| Language | English |
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A Study Of The Quranic Oaths, An English Rendering Of Iman Fi Aqsam Al Quran By Hamid Al-Din Farahi
A STUDY OF THE QURANIC OATHS, AN ENGLISH RENDERING OF IMAN FI AQSAM AL QURAN
This is a translation of a monograph titled Im‘an fi Aqsam al-Qur’an by Hamid al-Din Farahi. The author conceived it as one of the introductions to his unfinished commentary on the Holy Qur’an, later published as Nizam al-Qur’an.
This book discusses some issues attending to the uses of oaths in the Qur’an. The Qur’an employs oaths frequently to affirm a claim statement.
In the Qur’an, the Almighty has sworn by Himself and by many of His creations (for instance the sun, moon, stars, winds, fruits, towns, etc).
These occasions in the Qur’an have engendered questions that have baffled the commentators from the earliest times who, while trying to explain the scriptural text, appear to be grappling with the difficult questions on the nature and significance of these oaths – questions that are rooted in either in the Muslim expectation related to the relationship between the oath-taker and the subject of the oaths or in the peculiar semantic conclusions, which almost always accompany an oath in the Arabic language.
These questions unavoidably force themselves upon the commentators because of several reasons:
In the ordinary course of language, oaths are taken to emphasize and register the truth of one’s statement, by invoking something holy. Linguistically and religiously, an oath-taker always swears an oath by a higher being that is nobler than and distanced from the oath-taker. The oath
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