The Approach of Grammarians and Exegetes in Eliciting the Meaning

Abstract

This This research is a descriptive analytical study. It includes three sections and a conclusion. The first section deals with the relationship between the language and the Glorious Qur’an, stressing the strong relationship between them. The second section deals with the way the grammarian and exegete look at meaning, explaining this with some examples from the Glorious Qur’an. The third section deals with the relationship among them, when interpreting the Quranic texts. The research aims to clarify the grammarian’s and exegete’s views of the meaning, the relationship between both views, and the way grammarians and exegetes deal with when interpreting the Quranic texts. The research concludes with some findings among which are that the grammarians confined their analysis to the language, with its matters of grammar, or its predominance in the interpretation of the Glorious Qur’an, contributed to the multiplicity of meaning, and its ambiguity, and led to the existence of a huge number of views and readings by the grammarians in the books of interpretations of the Glorious Qur’an, and that the differences in the exegetes’ interpretations are grounded on a grammatical base. The researcher recommends collecting readings that some grammarians claimed to have weakness, illusion or ungrammaticality, and directing them in the light of the Arabic dialects that correspond to them as hearing, and not to take the analogy control on the commonly-used speech by Arabs as a reason to respond to the rarely-used speech by them, and to prevent using it as an argument; that is because the fact that the Glorious Qur’an takes into account all the dialects ​​of the Arabs by the time of revelation.