:: Volume 11, Issue 41 (spring 2020) ::
مطالعات تفسیری 2020, 11(41): 201-214 Back to browse issues page
The function of unseen news in the verses of the Holy Quran and the Old Testament
Shirin Rajabzadeh , Mehrdad Abbasi * 1, Mohammad Ali Ayazi
1- , mabbasi@srbiau.ac.ir
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The unseen news of the prophets is one of the most widely used concepts in the Holy Qur'an and the Old Testament. Examples of this veiled news are covered in the events of three areas: the pre-prophet era, the prophet's age, and future events, and have important functions in the two religious traditions of Islam and Judaism. The main focus of the article is to study these functions in the Qur'an and the Old Testament. The researchers have compiled and put forth the results of their comparative study of the two books. According to them, the unseen news can have two common and specific functions and both are either a means of guidance or fraudulence. The common guiding functions are also regulated under the headings of individual-social, giving glad-warning news, positive-guiding, worldly-otherworldly. The seductive functions include cases where one intends to deceive and enchant others and ultimately gain wealth and power. The role of unseen news in the realm of government and miracles has been considered as exclusive function of such news.
Keywords: Unseen news, the function of unseen news, the Qur'an and the Testaments.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2020/05/27 | Accepted: 2020/05/27 | Published: 2020/05/27


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