Sheikh Leghaei explores the subject of Sciences of the Holy Quran in 12 condensed but comprehensive lessons that give the reader an overview of the ocean of knowledge and spirituality of the Word of God.
- Sciences of the Qur’an ("Uloom al-Qur’an”)
- Introduction: Definition, History and Main Topics
- Lesson 1: Revelation, its stages, the author of the Qur’an
- The Name and the Meaning of the Qur’an
- Revelation
- Revelation in the Qur’an
- Possibility of Revelation
- Types of God’s Revelation to Man
- Types of Revelation to Prophet Muhammad (S)
- Time and Place of Revelation
- The Qur’an is the verbatim Words of God
- The Proofs
- The Revelation, the Ilham, Hadith Qudsi and Prophetic Hadith
- Assignment
- Lesson 2: Was the Holy Quran sent down gradually and all at once?
- Lesson 3: Ayah, Surah, History of the Collection of the Qur’an
- Lesson 4: A Myth Called Distortion of the Qur’an 1
- Lesson 5: A Myth Called Distortion of the Qur’an 2
- Introduction
- A) The Myth of Distortion of the Qur’an in the Sunni Narrations
- B) The myth of distortion in the eyes of the Shi’a scholars
- Category 1: Narrations that are undoubtedly fabricated
- Category 2: Narrations in which the Qur’an is Mistaken with Holy Narrations (Hadith al-Qudsi)
- Category 3: Mixing the Qur’an with the Interpretation of the Qur’an
- Category 4: Narrations that Noori interpreted them to mean verbal distortion of the Qur’an
- Category 5: Narrations that indicate the Qur’an is of three or four sections:
- Category 6: Different recitations
- Category 7: Rare Narrations
- The Final Note
- Lesson 6: The Science of the Signs of the Arabic Alphabets & Makki and Madani
- The Science of the Signs of Arabic Alphabets Putting ‘dots’ and articulation
- The science of recitations of the Qur’an
- Question and Answer
- The Present Recitation of the Qur’an
- The Science of Makki & Madani
- Chart 1: Percentage of the subjects of the Qur’an
- Chart 2: Trend of the subjects during the 23 years of revelation
- Lesson 7: The Science of the Context of the Revelation (Asbabu-Nozoul)
- Lesson 8: The Science of Abrogation
- Lesson 9: The Science of the Miracles of the Qur’an
- Definition of the miracle
- The Holy Qur’an the best and the everlasting miracle of Muhammad (S)
- Dimensions of the Miracles of the Qur’an
- 1. Examples of the rhetorical miracles of the Qur’an
- 2. Sublime Teachings and Educational Miracles of the Qur’an
- 3. Unification and the Harmony of the Qur’an
- 4. The Unseen News of the Qur’an
- 5. The Scientific Miracles of the Qur’an
- 6. The Numerical Miracles of the Qur’an
- Lesson 10: The Science of the Clear and Unclear Ayaat
- Lesson 11: Analysis of Some of the Unclear Ayaat (Paradoxical Ayaat)
- Lesson 12: The Science of the Tafsir
- Etymology of Tafsir
- Why does the Qur’an need interpretation?
- Ta’wil and its Meaning
- Is Ta’wil the prohibited self-opinion Interpretation of the Qur’an?
- The Basic Sciences necessary for the Tafsir of the Qur’an
- 1. Philology (Fiqhu-Logha)
- 2. Syntax (al-Nahw)
- 3. Morphology (Tasrif)
- 4. Etymology (Eshteqaq)
- 5,6,7. Rhetoric (al-Ma’ani, al-Bayan and al-Badee’)
- 8. The Science of Recitations
- 9. Principles of Islam
- 10. Principles of Jurisprudence
- 11. Jurisprudence (Fiqh)
- 12. The Science of the context of revelation (Asbabu-Nozoul)
- 13. The Science of Abrogation (Naskh)
- 14. The science of Hadith
- 15. A Gifted Knowledge (Elmul-Moheba)
- A Glance at the most important books of Tafsir
- Hermeneutics of the Qur’an
- Ten Selected Gems from the Holy Qur’an
- The Final Word
