Analysis of Consequences of Philosophical Approach to Interpretation of Holy Quran

The one thousand and four hundred years old history of interpretation has been accompanied with philosophy but the first two centuries. The emergence of a philosophical approach is one of the effects of this companionship that has always been involved in a serious dispute between opponents and supporters during the history. However, these debates have already existed between Jews and Christian and after entering philosophy to the community of Christian and Jewish people, Christian and Jewish philosophers intended to show that religion and religious texts are not against philosophy. Theses philosophers glossed the holy book through philosophical teachings in order to defend religion which was strongly refused by some of the scholars. In the history of Islamic philosophy the same story happened, too. After translating philosophical texts to Arabic language and the entrance of philosophy to the Islamic society, some refused the philosophy as a foreign knowledge which not only is not compatible with religion, but as well stands against it occasionally. Philosophers for standing against these objections tried to show philosophy not only has no opposition against religion, but also we can prove many religious teachings by philosophy. With this motivation, they gradually enter the philosophical point of view for interpreting Quran and claimed Quran has underneath layers that are trying to transfer deep meanings and compatible with the understanding of knowledgeable men that these meanings can only be discovered by philosophy. Their point of view about interpretation and philosophical interpretations has had some opponents that has criticized that from different aspects. One of these aspects is studying the consequences of this approach. We can point out some of these consequences including semantic change in quranic words, tending toward interpretations contrary to appearances, ignoring emotional and feeling elements in Quran, falling away from Quran main target( guidance and self-purification); showing understanding of Quran difficult and the necessity for other references in order to understand Quran.