The Analysis of Ayatollah Ma'refat's Perspective on Legislative Amendments Based on the Verse of "Najwa"

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Assistant professor, Department of the Quran, University of Quran and Hadith, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/jid.2024.285006.2202

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The issue of abrogation has long been a contentious topic in Quranic exegesis and studies. Early scholars, particularly in hadith literature, broadly defined abrogation as any alteration in a prior ruling. However, contemporary discourse has seen a shift in the understanding of this concept, which paved the way for the rise of skepticisms regarding the Quran. Ayatollah Marefat, in his work al-Tamhīd, initially affirmed the abrogation of twenty Quranic verses, a stance exploited to challenge the Quran. Yet, toward the end of his life, he reconsidered his position, proposing the notion of conditional or preparatory abrogation and ultimately rejecting the idea of legislative abrogation altogether. He even contested the notion of abrogation in the al-Najwā Verse. Marefat's perspective aligns with Sayyid Qutb's interpretation, which views the verse as imparting a pedagogical message to society, unrelated to jurisprudential rulings and thus not constituting legislative abrogation. This article delves into Marefat's and Qutb's perspectives, elucidating Marefat's final stance on abrogation based on Qutb's theory of pedagogical messaging in Quranic verses.

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