Evaluation of Khu’I’s view concerning concept and conditions of Naskh (revocation)

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Prominent contemporary Jurist and commentator, Ayatollah Khu’i opines a comprehensive theory about the Naskh in Al-Bayan. He challenges all claims of Naskh in Quran by setting some conditions, except in one case. Considering that the concept of Naskh is not an optional concept and it has religious effects, it can be expanded or restricted only with valid evidence and foundations. In this paper, his several conditions for Naskh are extracted. Then three foundations have been determined to Judge about Naskh conditions. They are: “True meaning of lexical”, “Applications in Quran and Hadith” and “rational and theological requirements”. Finally only two conditions can be considered as main conditions. They are: Serious conflict between Quran verses and Asynchronous between legislation and revocation. Subsidiary condition is that the verse must be an imperative sentence. By accepting of this comment, viewpoints of Quranic Scholars, Hadiths and Jurisprudence results can be converged. In his Jurisprudence books some of these verses are not considered as a revoked verse.

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