The Authority of the Qur'an and its spectrum in the Thought of Allameh Sayyid Mohammad Hossain Fazlollah

The holy Qur'an has considered itself as "the clarification for everything" which means the authority of the Qur'an in all sciences. The problem for the Qur'an scholars is that how such an impression is defensible and what are the reasons for the general authority of the Qur'an for all sciences. Some of the scholars such as Allameh Fazlolah consider the Qur'an needless to be included in non-human sciences, given that the purpose of the Qur'an is to guide man to the divine destination. The current study has answered this question "does the existence of various topics such as natural sciences in the Qur'an contradict his view?" and shows that the aim for the emergence of the limited natural data is to provoke the intellect, turning the human from effect into cause and to provoke thought to find the signs of God in the world. The way the Qur'an explains these types of verses shows that his argument is correct, because in human knowledge the almighty God has ordered to obey and has mentioned the do's and don'ts. The study which does not have any special background has been conducted through a descriptive-analytical and discovery method, and it aims to examine the theory of Allameh Fazlollah on the authority of the Qur'an in sciences. The finding of this study suggests that the theory of the general authority is not defensible and the authority of the Qur'an has a certain range; which means Fazlollah has considered divine revelation to be as the authority in human guidance needs such as Legislation, forming lifestyle and the origin of life (imitations and habits) and believes that human must refer to the Qur'an in beliefs, tendencies, dependencies, types of dependencies, lifestyle and human relations.