A Critique on the Khalafallah Opinions about the Quranic Narratives Based on the Contemporary Interpretations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associated professor of University of Tehran

2 A member of academic board of Razavi University

Abstract

It is uncovered to the good intellectuals the several functions of the stories in the length of the human history. The Quran as a leading and spiritual glorious text is not unconcerned about the ups and downs of the human fate. Choosing the previous world experiences with the aim of guiding and lessoning to men, the Quran has set some of the best true and influential stories. Although the Quran states itself the right but some authors like khalafallah who do not accept the truthfulness of the stories (qisas) and merely believing the revelation of the stories, think that they are allegories and myths. Although the different writings have been adopted to answer this claim, the author relying on the contemporary interpretations has been able to determine the central point of his speech and with stating the differences between the contemporary stories and myths with those of the revelation time clarifies the goals of his assumption that the stories are myths. Gathering Khalafallah’s opinions, printing out his faults and then criticizing them are the author’s findings which have been provided with emphasizing to contemporary interpretations in the present paper.

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