THE QUR'ĀNIC COMMA AND ITS IMPACT ON INTERPRETATION

Abstract

The study of the Qur’ānic comma and its impact on interpretation answers a problem related to the definition of the comma and what is meant by the comma and its importance? What is the impact of the comma on the significance of the belief, jurisprudence and Ethical (purification). The research aims to reveal what is meant by the comma and its importance. And a statement of the effect of the comma in belief, jurisprudential and the moral rulings. The inductive approach was adopted by collecting some evidence related to the subject, studying and analyzing them to reach the goals, where the comma indicated in his saying: {For Allah is All-Powerful, Almighty} in Surat Al-Ahzab that Victory is from God, and Adopting means to reach to the victory, and the comma indicated in the Almighty’s saying: {but He encompasses all vision. For He is the Most Subtle, All-Aware } in Surat Al-An’am, that seeing is not completely denied because the prevention of seeing is related to the attribute of kindness. In addittion, among the examples of the impact of the comma in the jurisprudence rulings as indicated in the Almighty’s saying: { But if they settle on divorce, then Allah is indeed All-Hearing, All-Knowing} in Surat Al-Baqarah that the devorce occurs with the utterance of the word divorce. His saying { All-Hearing, All-Knowing} indicates that the occurrence is audible, and examples of the impact of the comma in the ethics by appending the comma to mentioning the names of God Almighty that the believer must behave with it. The research was divided into two chapters, the first: about the comma, its meaning, the way to know the Qurānic comma and the importance of the comma and the attention of scholars to it. The second chapter: the impact of the comma on the significance of the legal rulings, and it has three sections, the first about the impact of the comma on the significance of the belief rulings. The second: the impact of the comma on the significance of  the jurisprudence rulings and the third: the impact of the comma on the significance of the moral rulings.