Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages - Theology and Islamic Studies - Quran and Hadith Sciences
2 Ph.D student in Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Kashan University
Abstract
The story of the birth, prophethood and even the ascension of Jesus (AS) is one of the topics that are summarized in verses of the Holy Quran. Verse 55 of Surah Al-Imran refers to story of "tovofi" and Ascension.
"Tovofi" refers to a variety of aspects. The challenge of Shia and Sunni commentators has been to achieve its correct meaning and each of them has expressed its meaning based on their method of interpretation.
The present study tries to review this verse and present the views of Shia and Sunni commentators about it through library studies.
This research examines more than forty important Shiite and fifty Sunni interpretations and collects and compares their data in a descriptive-analytical method in order to express the selected opinion of them.
Selected views of contemporary Shia commentators indicate the lack of precedence and delay in the ascension of the soul and body of Jesus (pbuh).
The word "bal” at the beginning of verse 157 of Surah Al-Nisa: “Allah raised him up unto Himself” proves Jesus high spiritual status and being alive
At the same time, the narrations indicating the Jesus’ return to the rule of Imam Mahdi (AS), reinforce this result.
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