Interpretation
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
interpretation · التأويل · al-taʼwīl · taʼwīl · taʾwīl · the literal sense · الحقيقة · تأويل
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Taʾwīl, the figurative reading of scripture and report, licensed only where the literal sense is impossible, on pain of destroying all confidence in transmission.
interpretation (taʼwīl) is permissible only where taking the wording in its literal sense is impossible;
And when the truthful one gives report of something possible, its acceptance is obligatory, without interpretation (taʼwīl).
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Taʼwīl, interpretation, required only where a revelation's imagery falls short of literal correspondence with its meaning.
And when the matter corresponding between the forms and the meanings is complete, it has no need at all of interpretation — as happened with Mūsá, in the correspondence between the meanings and the names, when it was said to him: