the instructional role of supplication in the Qur’an and the New Testament

What is the role of supplication in instruction throughout the teachings of the holy Books of the two great faiths (Islam and Christianity)? Having the title of “the instructional role of supplication in the Qur’an and the New Testament”, this dissertation tries to explore the qualitative and quantitative and quantitative roles of supplication in instruction. This is contrary to the fact that nowadays, general understanding about supplication and inclusive study of it is crude and preliminary. In the present study, first, the glossary of supplication and instruction is terminologically analyzed. Then, this fact is reviewed that supplication would be associated with two essential issues of instruction: first, it would outline the rational, moral and practical course of instruction. Second: it would represent the geometry built on the three dimensions of beliefs, ethics and practices. Learning the laws, frameworks and directions of supplication in the holy Books explains the quality and quantity of immediate prehensible relation with the origin and cognitive world and the anthropological and cosmological outlooks of the two faiths. They would form a factor for determination of preferences regarding the transcendence of religions. In the first section, this study tries to find the goals of instruction from the Qur’an’s perspective and also the instructional role of the supplicatory verses of the Qur’an. Through this analysis, 46 instructional fruits are revealed by analyzing 159 verses. In addition, in the second chapter of this study, which investigates about the New Testament, 15 exclusive fruits of supplication are indicated through analyzing 120 supplicatory verses. Consequently, in the third chapter of this study, which plans to have a comparative study of the role of supplication in instruction from the viewpoints of the two Books, the issued hypothesis of this study is proved and this study would arrive at this direct result that supplication or supplicatory instruction is one of the common features of Islam and Christianity. We would achieve this result as well that in these two divine religions, not only supplication is influential in instruction, but also supplication has outstanding instructional fruits which would not be substituted with anything else. In fact, the concept and dimensions of supplication in each of the two holy Books would be considered as the ultimate manifestation of perfect human being. In addition, in conclusion, comparison and determination of preferences between the two holy Books, 14 advantages and preferences are proved for the Qur’an over the New Testament regarding supplication.