The Sense Value and its Impact on the Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an

Abstract

The scholars stipulated that the interpreter who wants to interpret the Holy Qur’an according to his opinion, without being bound to stop at the limits of what has been narrated from it only, must be familiar with several sciences through which he can interpret the Qur’an in an acceptable rational way. They made these sciences as tools that protect the interpreter from falling into error and protect him from saying about God without knowledge. Such sciences include language, syntax, morphology, derivation, rhetoric, readings, fundamentals of religion, reasons for revelation, stories, and the hadiths that explain the interpretation of the general and the obscure, in order to use them to clarify what is confusing, and other than what is known in its section, simplified in its propositions. These sciences - which are like a verse for the interpreter, can only be interpreted by acquiring them. Whoever interpreted without it was interpreted by the opinion that is forbidden, and if he interpreted with its occurrence, he is not interpreting by the opinion that is forbidden. However, the sense value, or in a similar term, "the science of endowment", is considered by the masters of the sciences of the Holy Qur'an and its interpretation a basic science and a major source for the interpreter, among other sciences that the interpreter needs. Rather, they are originally prepared to find out the meanings of the Holy Qur’an, as expressed by Al-Zarkashi in al-Burhān. This research will try to provide a definition of the sense value with an explanation of the difference between the sense value and the science of endowment, and it will try to reveal the extent to which the interpreters depend on the sense value during the interpretive process.