Renovating Interpretation of Islamic Scripture between Systematic Authentication and Comprehending of Reality


Abstract in English

Renovating the interpretation of Islamic scripture doesn't refer to coining new rootless values, which contradict with Islamic belief and legislative principles, but rather refers to refining the way people understand religion from negative aspects, and enabling them to understand religious values and principles as first Muslims understood them in the outset of Islam. This is a renovation in the understanding of people, not in the religion itself, and its firm rules and values. Since we live in an age governed by programmed civilization, going by precise and deliberate planning, then we have to set the priorities related to our intended renovation of understanding, namely maintaining a systematic authentication method, which constitutes the referential base from which the independent thinker derives his theoretical approach to interpretation, description, and the consequent results. Furthermore, reading the reality, and comprehending it in whole, reassures us that the whole reality needs to be subjected to renovation. Consequently, this study is intended to show that Islam emphasizes the need to renovate comprehension and reality reading, by mastering the principles of Islamic scripture, and obtaining a methodology of renovating its understanding, through several points this research discusses….

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