The Scientific Authority of the Qur'an from the Viewpoint of Ayatollah Motahari

The scientific authority of the Qur'an is a novel concept and there is no clear consensus about its definition.  However, the scientific authority of the Qur'an started to exist from the demise of the last prophet (prophet Mohammad), in the sense that it was the first book which attracted the thought of Muslims, and Muslims were looking forward to its training and in this regard various sciences were found which led to the formation of great Islamic civilization. In the history of Muslim scientific life, scientists believed that the details of all the sciences could be extracted from the Qur'an. In contrast, some scholars believed that the Qur'an is a guidebook and that sciences cannot be extracted from the Qur'an. The works of Professor Motahari it can be shown that the Qur'an has the authority to determine the principles, foundations, and purposes of the sciences, gives a clear answer to questions that empirical science is unable to answer, there are some secrets in the Qur'an about nature that can be understood with the advancement of sciences and in the humanities it has raised many issues in general that can be deduced from the method of Ijtihad. According to him, there is no social, historical, ethical, jurisprudential, philosophical material in the Qur'an in the usual language and in the form of common terms; but many of the issues in those sciences are completely deducible and also expresses the principles of education and ethics and social and family systems and only the interpretation and possibly matching the major and minor issues are done by the tradition or ijtihad. The present study aims to explain and analyze the authority of Qur'an and its scope through a documentary method and also describes and analyzes Motahari's views on the scientific authority of the Qur'an