On the Interpretation of the Verses Related to the Anecdote of Moses-Khidr in the Framework of Sufism Cover Image

Hz. Musa Hızır Kıssası ile ilgili Ayetlerin Tasavvuf Âdâbı Çerçevesinde Yorumu Üzerine
On the Interpretation of the Verses Related to the Anecdote of Moses-Khidr in the Framework of Sufism

Author(s): İskender Şahin
Subject(s): Islam studies, Hermeneutics, Qur’anic studies
Published by: Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Qur'an; Tafseer; Anecdote; Sufism; Etiquettes; Moses the Prohet; Khidr;

Summary/Abstract: Aiming to raise a human being in line with Allah's will, the sufi people applied to the Qur’an at every stage and gave it the necessary value. In order to benefit from the Qur'an much more, they did not neglect to explain it in line with their own perspectives and experiences, and they wrote many valuable isharī tafsir. In this context, they evaluated some practices and manners of sufism on the axis of the Qur'an and interpreted the relevant verses in this direction. Parables, orders and prohibitions, advices, especially anecdotes, constituted the starting point of the practices in question. One of them is known as the Moses-Khidr story. These are the verses in the chapter of al-Kahf in which the journey of Moses in order to learn knowledge from Khidr and the events that happened to him are told. Within the framework of sufi etiquette, this story inspired the sufis. They tend to read and understand the

  • Issue Year: 8/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 215-249
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Turkish