اتجاهات المفسرين في تفسير لفظ "مُتَوَفِّيكَ" في قوله تعالى: «إِنِّي مُتَوَفِّيكَ وَرَافِعُكَ إِلَيَّ» [آل عمران: 55]: دراسة نقدية
Exegetical Trends in Interpreting the Term “Mutawaffīka” in the Verse “Innī Mutawaffīka wa Rāfiʿuka Ilayya” [Āl ʿImrān: 55]: Critical Study
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https://doi.org/10.33102/jmqs.v22i1.580Keywords:
Mutawaffīka, Jesus, Approaches, Exegetes, Surah Āl ʿImrānAbstract
This study explores exegetical approaches to the Qur’anic term “Mutawaffīk” in the verse: “[Mention] when Allah said, ‘O Jesus, indeed I will take you and raise you to Myself’ (Quran3:55) by tracing interpretations of major mufassirūn across representative tafsīr works. development and methods of interpretation and preference. The study adopts inductive, analytical, and historical methods, supported by critical comparison of exegetical trends. The study shows that the semantic breadth of the term tawaffī generated four main approaches: death with rhetorical re-ordering (taqdīm wa-taʾkhīr), maintaining the textual order while reading the term through selected linguistic meanings, figurative (majāzī) interpretation, and suspension (tawqīf) regarding the precise intent. Ten interpretations are identified and discussed considering linguistic usage and Qur’anic context, six of which are judged preferable. These converge on a shared outcome: the complete taking up of Jesus and his continued life with God, supporting their combination rather than exclusion. The research also uncovers a trajectory from reliance on transmitted reports, to linguistic and Sufi expansions, and finally to modern rationalist readings, and recommends further comparative tafsīr studies to address contemporary theological and intellectual questions.
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