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extracting and knowing 1. The Meaning of the
them requires effort. Quranic Interior (Batn)
in the View of Allameh
2. The Lexical and Idiomatic Tabatabai
Meaning of “Understanding” - The Interior is the same
• Lexical: What is known Esoteric Interpretation
by the mind or heart and of the Quran
has a clear idea of Allameh Tabatabai considers
something and its meaning esoteric interpretation of the
.
is understood by others Quran as external facts on the
• Idiomatic: This perception basis of which the Holy Quran
is the meaning of what has based its knowledge and
the addressee said. laws. For this reason, Allameh
Tabatabai writes:
3. The Lexical and Idiomatic
Meaning of “Level” Esoteric interpretation
• Lexical: Level indicates of the Quran is the
external facts on which
the average status and the Verses of the Quran
grade . are based on the
• Idiomatic: The level of knowledge, laws and
understanding or the other things that have
degree of depth of the been shown. So if one of
audience in terms of those facts were to
meaning and verbal change, the content of
importance, which is the Verses would
known according to the change. (Tabatabai,
level of understanding or 1997, Vol. 3: 61)
.
moral purity of the reader
Allama Tabatabai defines
The Meaning of the Quranic the Interior of the Quran
Interior (Batn) from the Perspective (Esoteric interpretation of the
of Allameh Tabatabai and Quran) as follows:
Allameh Ma'refat
