abdorrahim soleimani behbahani
Abstract
Verses 60 to 82 of Al-Kahf Sureh narrate the story of the meeting between Moses and Khidr. The events taking place while these two divine figures meet have been discussed or documented in the form of views expressed in the science of jurisprudence, ethics, education, theology, etc. The present paper, ...
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Verses 60 to 82 of Al-Kahf Sureh narrate the story of the meeting between Moses and Khidr. The events taking place while these two divine figures meet have been discussed or documented in the form of views expressed in the science of jurisprudence, ethics, education, theology, etc. The present paper, organized as a descriptive-analytic report, tries to infer the belief implications and to respond to doubts stemmed from some of the verses narrating the story. Exegetical works, with a theological approach, have addressed this topic in a scanty brief manner. Meanwhile, it is to be noted that the articles written about the mentioned verses mostly lack a theological approach. They rather deal with this topic from a moral, educational and mystical perspective. The present paper focuses on religious teachings that can be directly and indirectly deduced from the Qur'anic verses without reference to extra-Qur'anic reports and conflicting presuppositions. The most important religious implications of the verses in question can be listed as follows: the possibility that some people have the knowledge of the unseen world emanated from the divine source, the obligations attached to some types of occult knowledge of the God’s elected people, confirmation of the verbal rule of grace, deciphering the wisdom of some unfortunate phenomena and an answer to doubts stemmed from the problem of the evil.
