فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Verse 4 of Surah Balad refers to how man was created: "We did create man in the "Kabad"." An accurate understanding of this verse requires a precise decipherment of the word "Kabad". Most later translators and commentators have translated the word as "suffering and hardship" and the verse as follows: "God created man in suffering and hardship." Accordingly, the meaning of the verse is that man in life has to endure many hardships and sufferings. Now the question arises as to whether this negative view of human creation does not cause him to despair in life. Does this concept correspond to verses such as "We created man in the best calendar" and basically to the mercy and wisdom of God? These questions reinforced the hypothesis of another meaning of the word "Kabad" and another understanding of the verse. Therefore, in the present study, we studied the semantics of the word "Kabad" based on dictionaries, old and new interpretations, the narrations of the Infallibles (AS), and the historical study of this word in Hebrew and religious texts of the Torah and the Bible. Using contextual and structural methods and referring to interpretive and narrative documents and thematic study of verses related to human creation, it became clear that the main meaning of the word "Kabad" is stability, balance, and consistency. Therefore, the verse refers to human creation in "proportion and balance and consistency", and by combining the meanings of the word "Kabad", a new understanding of the verse about the creation of man can be achieved.