The Hanbali legal reasoning, by and large, draws on the text-based approach in isolation from the mere human opinions in an attempt to apply all texts as much as possible.
Among the Qur'ān's central themes are the multiplicity of revelation, the phenomena of prophethood, the nature of death, and the reality of the afterlife, among other issues central to the philosophy of religion. Nonetheless, the Qur'ān remains understudied in the field. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Western scholars have sought to establish approaches to the Qur'ānic text that eschew the Qur'ān's account of its own origins, history, and nature and circumvent a millennium of
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The Prophet Muhammad is considered the first commentator on the Qur’an and the exemplar whose actions teach Muslims how live and act in accordance with the Qur’an. Whereas the Qur’an provides accounts of the trials that previous messengers such as Moses and Abraham faced before their prophetic missions began, there are only a few allusions to the life of the Prophet Muhammad before the onset of his prophetic mission.
In the Qur’an, the covenant is etiological. As Tariq Jaffer writes, “from the perspective of the Qur’an the event in cosmic history is one that establishes and binds together the monotheistic worldview and an ethos or program of conduct on earth for humanity”.