قرآنی سورتوں میں موضوعی وحدت شیخ سعید حوّی اور مولاناامین احسن اصلاحی کے نظریۂ نظم کا تقابلی مطالعہ ---------------------------------------------- The Thematic Coherence in the Qur‘an: A Comparative study of Islahi and Saeed Hawwa’s Concept of Nazm

Abstract

The prevalent trend of Quranic interpretation in Muslim tradition is generally a verse by verse approach, where verses are taken in isolation from their inner context of Qur’a itself. This leads to the belief that the arrangement of Quranic verses and surahs has no such significance from the exegetical point of view. In twentieth century the trend of thematic exegesis of Qur’an prevailed in the Muslim world. Among the well-known scholars of Indian subcontinent Mawlana Hamid al-Din Farahi (1930 AH) held the opinion that every Quranic surah has a thematic whole and its all parts are well knitted around a main theme. He calls it Quranic Nazm. Moreover he held the view that this nazm exists on the level of surah pairs and their groups as well. His disciple Mawlana Amin Ahsan Islahi wrote a complete Tafsir in Urdu Tadabbur-I Qur’an in the light of Farahi’s nazm theory.  This thematic trend was also adopted by ‘Arab scholars like Sayyid Qutub and Saeed Hawwa. The later has a voluminous interpretation al-Asas fi al-Tafsir in Arabic. He is of the view that every Quranic surah has a distinct theme which is related to a block of the verses of Surah al-Baqarah and the whole surah interprets these verses. This article focuses on the comparative study of the concept of thematic unity of Quranic surahs according to Islahi and Saeed Hawwa. It concludes that Islahi’s approach is much more logical and holistic than Saeed Hawwa’s.