Qom University Comparative Interpretation Research 2476-4191 8 1 2022 03 21 The Underlying Causes of Religious Superstition; A Qur’anic Perspective Focusing on Social Exegeses (Tafsīr-i Nimūni and Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān) The Underlying Causes of Religious Superstition; A Qur’anic Perspective Focusing on Social Exegeses (Tafsīr-i Nimūni and Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān) 139 166 2207 10.22091/ptt.2022.6461.1907 FA Mahdi Farahani Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic Azad University, Khurramabad, Iran Jafar Taban Assistant professor of shahid Mahallati University, Qom Seyyed Karim | Seyyed Karim Khoobbin Khoshnazar  Assistant Professor, University of Sciences and Education of the Qur’an, Tehran, Iran 0000-0001-6558-9782 Journal Article 2021 01 08 Received: 2021/6/8 | Correction: 2022/1/9 | Accepted: 2022/1/9 The purpose of this article, which is written under the descriptive-analytical method, is to study more closely the phenomenon of religious superstition, as well as to identify the affecting factors that cause it in some people, albeit from the perspective of the Qur’an. The most important are factors such as personal profiteering, defending one’s favorite religion, weakening various viewpoints of opponents, corruption in religion, as well as religious tyranny. Of course, some superstitions such as bidʿa (heresy), taḥrīf (distortion), qīās (analogy), following mutashābihāt (ambiguous similarities), and intentional or unintentional mistakes of the narrator or listener of Hadith are formed sometimes due to the weakness of people’s religious beliefs. Even extremism in matters such as rationalism, traditionalism, religious toleration, or committing ghuluww (exaggeration) for the benefit of making myths seem among the causes of religious superstitions. Anyhow, identifying the causes of superstition is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental steps towards the pathology of this inauspicious phenomenon. Such a crucial task can put preventive mechanisms in front of present religious communities to increase popular religious insight and not fall into the abyss of superstition and its consequences. It seems only by trusting on God and a sheer obedience to the resuscitative teachings of divine leaders on the one hand and relying on human reason and attempting to raise the level of knowledge on the other, this destructive phenomenon can be overcomed. Farahani, M; Khoobbin Khoshnazar, S.K; Taban, J. (2022) The Underlying Causes of Religious Superstition; A Qur’anic Perspective Focusing on Social Exegeses (Tafsīr-i Nimūni and Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān). Biannual Journal of Comparative Exegetical Researches, 8 (15) 139-166. Doi: 10.22091/PTT.2022.6461.1907. Received: 2021/6/8 | Correction: 2022/1/9 | Accepted: 2022/1/9 The purpose of this article, which is written under the descriptive-analytical method, is to study more closely the phenomenon of religious superstition, as well as to identify the affecting factors that cause it in some people, albeit from the perspective of the Qur’an. The most important are factors such as personal profiteering, defending one’s favorite religion, weakening various viewpoints of opponents, corruption in religion, as well as religious tyranny. Of course, some superstitions such as bidʿa (heresy), taḥrīf (distortion), qīās (analogy), following mutashābihāt (ambiguous similarities), and intentional or unintentional mistakes of the narrator or listener of Hadith are formed sometimes due to the weakness of people’s religious beliefs. Even extremism in matters such as rationalism, traditionalism, religious toleration, or committing ghuluww (exaggeration) for the benefit of making myths seem among the causes of religious superstitions. Anyhow, identifying the causes of superstition is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental steps towards the pathology of this inauspicious phenomenon. Such a crucial task can put preventive mechanisms in front of present religious communities to increase popular religious insight and not fall into the abyss of superstition and its consequences. It seems only by trusting on God and a sheer obedience to the resuscitative teachings of divine leaders on the one hand and relying on human reason and attempting to raise the level of knowledge on the other, this destructive phenomenon can be overcomed. Farahani, M; Khoobbin Khoshnazar, S.K; Taban, J. (2022) The Underlying Causes of Religious Superstition; A Qur’anic Perspective Focusing on Social Exegeses (Tafsīr-i Nimūni and Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān). Biannual Journal of Comparative Exegetical Researches, 8 (15) 139-166. Doi: 10.22091/PTT.2022.6461.1907.

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