The use of context in different readings, a case study of the word Arjulakum in the verse of ablution

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Authors

1 Corresponding Author, Quran and Sciences Group, Khorasan Representative Office, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah Society, Mashhad, Iran,

2 Quran and Sciences Group, Khorasan Representative Office, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah Society, Mashhad, Iran,

Abstract

One of the important Quranic topics that has scientific and practical dimensions is the topic of reciting the Holy Quran. In different periods of Islamic history, different readings have been done for the Holy Quran. These recitations have been the special attention and care of commentators, Qur'an scholars and jurists for a long time.
Sometimes it is possible that the type of reading and the Arabs overshadow the concepts and meanings of the verses of the Qur'an and cause the change and transformation of jurisprudential inferences and interpretations.
Quranic scholars have stated many and different criteria to determine and recognize the correct recitation, one of these criteria is the use of the context rule.
The upcoming research, which was organized with the aim of using and applying the context rule in determining the correct reading of the word Arjulakum, after collecting information from the sources available in libraries and scientific centers and using the analytical-descriptive method, has led to the following conclusion:
Among the three reading models: removing, installing, and conjugation of the word Arjulakum, the only acceptable reading is the conjugation; Because according to this reading, firstly: the unity of the context of the sentences from

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