Qoran Shenakht

Understanding a work is receiving the message lying within it. Concerning the elements contributing to understanding a work, various approaches are raised. We may name these approaches based on the element whose role is overemphasized as author oriented, text oriented, and interpreter oriented. Regardless of unconventional works the meanings of which exclusively depend on the audience, in other works including the Quran the author has a key role in the structure, contents, as well as the purposes of the work and finally in understanding it. The audience of the Quran being the whole mankind, this book has addressed them according to the language and discourse of the reasonable. Allah has revealed the Quran for the guidance of mankind selecting its words and phrases in the Quranic special context. Thus understanding and interpreting the Quran without observing the rules of the discourse of the reasonable, the worldview of its producer, and the context of its revelation is an example of the interpretation based on personal opinion which is undesirable and forbidden according to the dictates of religion and reason.