Reassessment of the Characteristics of Divine and Social Traditions in the Qur’an

Farahani, Mohammad

doi:10.22034/arq.2025.234467

Reassessment of the Characteristics of Divine and Social Traditions in the Qur’an

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mohammad farahani

Associate Professor, Department of Qur’anic Exegesis and Hadith, University of Qur’anic Sciences and Teachings, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/arq.2025.234467

Abstract

Every universal and all-encompassing principle related to the growth, flourishing, exaltation, or decline and degeneration of human beings and societies represents one of the Divine and social traditions. Recognizing and comprehending these traditions is a vital and fundamental factor in preventing the destruction of nations and ensuring their progress and dignity, for the Divine traditions operate within present communities just as they did within those of the past. A comprehensive understanding of the causes that led to the downfall of previous societies can be transmitted to other nations and communities, thereby preventing their destruction. On this basis, examining the characteristics of Divine and social traditions—namely, analyzing the constituent and formative elements, as well as the conditions of these Divine laws that have influenced human life since creation—is of great importance and necessity. Human beings and societies must be aware of the reasons, causes, and circumstances behind the events that befall them, so that through affirmative or preventive action, they may respond appropriately and traverse their worldly and spiritual journey toward happiness, perfection, and Divine proximity in the shortest and most correct path. Accordingly, the components of Divine and social traditions in the Qur’an and its exegetical literature have been discussed—through library-based research and descriptive-analytical methods—in such aspects as their foundation upon the principle of causality, universality and comprehensiveness, permanence and immutability, compatibility with human free will, guidance-oriented nature, social dimension, and the succession of Divine traditions.

Keywords

Characteristics

Causality

Permanence

Universality

Free Will

Sovereignty

Succession

Subjects

social Sciences

The Holy Qur’an

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