Great Quran Interpreter Commemorated

In a ceremony held in the holy city of Qom, the great interpreter of the Quran Allameh Tabatabaee was commemorated.

Grand sources of emulation Ayatollahs Makarem Shirazi and Sobhani as well as seminary scholars were present at the event, which was organized on the 33^rd demise anniversary of Allameh Tabatabaee and as part of the congress of Qom Seminary’s Quran Experts.

Addressing the ceremony, grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi described holding the congress as a great step and hailed the move to turn Allameh Tabatabaee’s house into a Dar-ol-Quran Center and a place for the gathering of prominent Quran experts of the seminary.

He hoped that the establishment of the Dar-ol-Quran center would pave the way for more and better Quranic activities.

Grand Ayatollah Sobhani also addressed the program, saying that Allameh Tabatabaee’s Quran-to-Quran interpretation method is one approved by the Holy Quran and Sunnah.   

He said Quran is a light that illuminates everything and can therefore interpret itself as well.

Alllameh Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee was a great Quran interpreter and one of the most prominent thinkers of philosophy and contemporary Shia Islam. He is famous for Tafsir al-Mizan, the Quranic exegesis.

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