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The infallibility of Imams (AS) is one of the true beliefs of Shiites, for the Imam is the messenger of God and the guardian of the Divine religion. This fundamental belief has been disputed and challenged by the Shiite opponents, among them are the misconceptions raised by Dr. Qaffārī. His doubts include, for instance, the doubt that this belief has been innovative concerning its background, the rejection of Shiite reasons for infallibility regarding the Qur'an and intellect, and the fruitlessness of this belief for Shi’a. This study, first, deals with the doubts of Qaffārī about infallibility and then answers the doubts and objections raised in this regard, relying on the verses of the Holy Qur’an and Shiite and Sunni commentaries. Referring to the Holy Qur'an, it is proved that the subject of infallibility is mixed with the position of Imamate and succession. Accordingly, the source of division among the Islamic Ummah is the lack of belief in the infallibility of the Messenger of God (PBUH) and his successors, which has caused seditions and disputes since the death of the Prophet (PBUH) until now. As a result, to come out of the current conditions of the Islamic world, Muslims should believe in the necessity of obeying the Infallible 'Ul al-'Amr.

Grammarians and commentators disagree about the syntactic role of "Asbata" in the verse "…va qaṭṭa'nāhumuth-natay 'ashrata asbāṭan…" (وَ قَطَّعْناهُمُ اثْنَتَیْ عَشْرَهَ أَسْباطا) and have proposed several roles for it. According to Arabic grammar, the accusative of specification (tamiz) the numbers eleven and nineteen must be singular and assigned. The accusative of specification (tamiz) the number "twelve" in the above verse should come in the form of "sabṭan", while it is plural and accusative, which is against the grammar. For this reason, four grammatical roles are mentioned for it in syntactic and explanatory sources. Christoph Luxenberg, the author of the book "Syriac-Aramaic reading of the Qur'an", believes that the grammatical role of "asbaṭan" is distinctive accusative of specification (tamiz) ; But not according to the Arabic grammar, but according to the Syriac grammar. He considers the difference of opinion of grammarians and commentators in the role of "asbaṭan" due to their lack of familiarity with the Syriac Aramaic language and its influence on the Arabic language and the Qur'an. The current research has reviewed Luxenberg's point of view in this regard with the library method and comparative approach. Although there are some similarities between Syriac and Arabic syntax, the results indicate that Luxenberg's claim is not true.

The Holy Quran has used the word "Inda" many times to convey its meanings. In its initial meaning, this word encodes the concept of "with", but in all cases, the use of this word is not limited to this meaning in the Quran, and being placed in different contexts, it shows news conceptual metaphors, amd in most verses, this word has the same meaning of "Inda". The present study descriptively-analytically examines the conceptual metaphors of the word "Inda" in the Holy Quran and its equivalent translations to determine the extent to which the translations of Fooladvand, Mousavi Hamedani, Khorramshahi, Elahi Qomshei are close to its metaphorical meaning. It is concluded that the selection of equal metaphorical concepts for "Inda" has been difficult for translators and it has been limited to conventional equivalent expression. Conceptual metaphors used by the word "Inda" in the Holy Quran include divine judgment, certainty/maintenance, knowledge, and ownership, from (assignment of lordship), proximity, Qurb (closeness), and Fi (in). By examining the translation of 23 verses of the research on the metaphorical meanings of the word "Inda", Khorramshahi’s translation has used more metaphorical concepts in translation than other translations.

Lexical bundles crucially shape the discourse of specialized registers  such as religious scriptures, yet research on bundles that characterize Islamic sacred texts such as the Qur'an remains scarce. This study conducts a comprehensive corpus analysis to identify prevalent lexical bundles in an English translation of the Qur'an, illuminating their structural forms and functional roles in encoding Islamic theology. A specialized corpus of 166,807 words spanning 114 suras was constructed, with frequent bundles extracted using software and filtering based on predetermined frequency/distribution thresholds. Identified bundles were qualitatively coded for structural realizations and functional types by multiple researchers. Findings revealed a marked predominance of nominal and prepositional phrase bundles systematically lexicalizing and reinforcing core religious concepts and metaphysical tenets. The quantitative prevalence of research-oriented bundles contextualizing theological subject matter over participant-oriented ones projecting stances and experiences, suggests that the Qur’an upholds an epistemological tradition regarding itself as an inviolable corpus encoding divinely revealed spiritual verities. These findings yield profound pedagogical implications since instructional approaches elucidating prevalent bundles as linguistic "building blocks" can foster holistic mastery of authentic Qur’anic expressions among diverse learners while preserving spiritual sanctity. Furthermore, bundle-focused activities cultivate integrated literacies surrounding comprehension, rhetorical articulation, and critical analysis of the linguistic and cultural dimensions of religious texts.

Qur'anic stories are among the topics that interest Orientalists and have been analyzed differently. In some Orientalist works, attention has been paid to the whole story, and in others, some details have been focused on. German Orientalist, Rudi Paret, has presented a concise interpretation of Qur'anic stories in the book <em>The Qur'an Commentary and Concordance</em>. In this article, we will review his opinions in this field. The results of this article indicate that despite Paret's attention to the interpretation of verses with other verses and referring to the tradition of Islamic interpretation, relying on the information of the Bible and relying too much on the oriental tradition before him caused his misunderstanding of some stories. His focus is on some details in Qur'anic stories such as the meaning of the words Hettah and Raqeem, which conflict with the Islamic interpretation tradition in most cases.