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International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (24): 55-65, Serial Number 4, Autumn 2020

ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER
The Notion of “Light” Interpreted in “The Niche of the Lights”
of Ghazali
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Saeid Khanabadi *, Dr. Mahdi Dehghani Firouzabadi
1. * PhD Student in Department of French and Latin Language and Literature, Faculty of
Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, (Corresponding Author)
2. Assistant Professor in Department of English Translation, Faculty of Humanities,
Tolou-e Mehr Institute of Higher Education, Qom, Iran, and PhD from University
Sains Malaysia, dr.dehghani.ell@gmail.com
ARTICLE INFO Abstract
Article History: SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: Since the revelation of

Received 02 December 2019 the Holy Quran to the Prophet Mohammad, Muslim
Revised 02 April 2020 thinkers have been interested in the interpretation of the
Accepted 01 May 2020
35th verse of the Surah “Light”. From Fārābi, Avicenna
Key Words: and Sohrawardi to contemporary Islamic scholars, the
Quranic Studies structure, content and symbolism of this verse, reputed by
Light Surah the title of the verse of the Light, have been studied and
Light Verse commented on several methods.
The Niche of the Lights METHOD AND FINDING: Imam Abu Hamed Mohammad
Ghazali Ghazali, the Great Iranian Master of jurisprudence, theology,
ethics, philosophy, logic and gnostic has written a very concise
DOI: essay on this subject, in order to answer the question of a disciple
10.22034/IMJPL.2020.8773.1003 who asks him to interpret this quranic verse. This book, written
in Arabic, is called “Mishkat-al-Anwar”, which means “The
DOR:
20.1001.1.26767610.2020.7.24.3.5 Niche of the lights”. In this article, we will faithfully follow the
approach taken by Ghazali, this famous Muslim thinker, who
was born in Iranian region of Khorasan at the time of the

Seljukide dynasty, to explain the quranic notion of the Light.
CONCLUSION: In the examined verse, the terms are
positioned according to a well-ordered hierarchical order.

The glass is in a niche. The lamp is in the glass. This
shows the hierarchy between the sources of light. That is
why the quranic verse says “Light on Light”.
* Corresponding Author:
Email: Article Address Published on the Journal Site:
saeid_khanabadi@yahoo.fr http://p-l.journals.miu.ac.ir/article_5336.html
ORCID: 0000-0002-1360-7907

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