A Study of the Theological Thoughts of the “Quran School”& Criticisms of It

The School of Qur’an is one of the new-found groups which doesn’t have a long history and was founded under the influence of Ahmad Mufti Zadeh’s ideas in the Iranian Kurdistan. His ideas regarding various rhetorical subjects, including faith and blasphemy, caliphate and council, and resorting and seeking help from others rather than God were based merely on the verses of the holy Qur’an. This subjects have been controversial in the Islamic society for a long time, and there have been different ideas about them among Islamic religions. The purpose of this study is to understand the rhetorical principles and beliefs of the School of Qur’an in order to create a appropriate setting to criticize and study it, and also to provide constructive solutions for interacting and dealing with it properly. However, due to the lack of collected and edited sources, there is no complete understanding of this school and it is not possible to examine and criticize it precisely, but it is only possible to study it according to the sporadic existing sources related to its founder, Ahmad Mufti Zadeh. Therefore, applying a descriptive-analytical approach, the present study analyzed the written works, interviews, opinions and ideas of the School of Qur’an and Mufti Zadeh himself, and finally obtained the following results: According to Mufti Zadeh, and the School of Quran, faith means finding, understanding and recognizing the basic and fundamental facts of the universe, admitting, believing and accepting them wholeheartedly and be coordinated with them. They believe that if Islam is not defined by an honest advisor, it is not possible to call people infidels because of not accepting Islam. They consider the existence of a council necessary to govern society, and believe that such a council has the role of counselling, decision-making and executing, and has the authority to interfere with people’s ideological beliefs. Therefore, the existence of religions is considered to be a barrier to the formation of such a council. According to them, all forms of resorting and seeking help are allowed only from God and live human beings. They do not allow for any resorting and seeking help from the dead and in the case of intercession, they do not request it from a dead man, though they accept intercession in the Hereafter. In the end, it is worth noting that their mere reliance on the verses of the Holy Qur’an and the lack of using and referring to other religious documents and sources have led to the major differences between their ideas and other religions and Islamic authorities’ views.