Abstract
Shihab is an Islamic scholar who has prolifically produced a comprehensive 30 chapters of Qur’anic exegesis entitled Tafsir Al-Mishbah. This book is perceived as the latest Qur’anic exegesis produced by Muslim scholar of the Archipelago. He stresses on the importance of understanding the Qur’an contextually, supported by a strong understanding of the language and not focusing only on the textual meaning. In relation to this, his work has used a lot of linguistics approaches as to obtain the actual verses exegeses. Therefore, this study seeks to analyse critically his linguistics exegesis, and the focus rests on the debate on Qur’anic words. To obtain an explicitness perspective, this study has adopted the library research and document analysis method by making language and reliable popular Qur’anic exegesis books as primary sources of reference. The outcome of this study finds that Shihab had applied five rules in relation to Qur’anic words, all of which have been approved by scholars and exegetes. In addition, this study also found that Shihab absolutely consistent in applying these rules, except in the first rule. By doing so, it was slightly crippled his exegetical work. Finally, this study suggests that it is not possible that a grammatical error occurs in the Qur’an. Indeed, the essence of the Arabic language rules is unparalleled with the structure of the Qur’an, but the arrangement rule was implemented after the Qur’an was revealed. If both cannot be made consistent with one another, then this is due to the limitation of method which is known as shādh. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s1p454
Highlights
Making an effort to understand the Qur’anic meaning was constantly attract the attention and interest of Muslim and nonMuslim scholars till today
It can be concluded that what is meant by the rule of exegesis is a set of ruling which is universal in nature, used by exegetes as a guideline to reach to the study of the meanings of the Qur’an and knowing the procedures to get its wisdoms
Shihab has stressed the importance to understanding the meaning of verses based on linguistic analysis
Summary
Making an effort to understand the Qur’anic meaning was constantly attract the attention and interest of Muslim and nonMuslim scholars till today. The development of Qur’anic exegesis with various methodologies should be balanced with Qur’anic knowledge tools, such as mastery of the rules of exegesis This is to ensure the exegetes could comprehend the Qur’an holistically. One of the important rules in interpreting the Qur’an is to consider the meaning that indicated by the words. One cannot interpret the Qur’an properly if ignore this advice In this vein, this decent article focuses on the study on the rules of exegesis employed by M. Quraish Shihab (Shihab is used in place of his full name) in his work Tafsir Al-Mishbah that relates with the diversity meanings of Qur’anic words. Rules of exegesis and its level of validity which applied by Shihab in his exegetical work, Tafsir Al-Mishbah. To strengthen the findings, all materials collected and analysed by adopting content analysis method; where the main source is Tafsir Al-Mishbah which supported by other materials, such as books, journals, dissertation, thesis, etc
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