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A Muslim is someone who follows or practises ___MASK61___ , a monotheistic Abrahamic religion . Muslims consider the ___MASK40___ ( Koran ), their holy ___MASK100___ , to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad . They also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (" sunnah ") as recorded in traditional accounts (" hadith "). " Muslim " is an Arabic word meaning " one who submits ( to God )". An imam (', plural : ') is an Islamic leadership position . It is most commonly in the context of a worship leader of a mosque and Muslim community by Sunni Muslims . In this context , imams may lead Islamic worship services , serve as community leaders , and provide religious guidance . For Shi ' a Muslims , the imam has a more central meaning and role in ___MASK61___ through the concept of Imamah ; the term is only applicable to those members of the house of the prophet ahl al - Bayt , designated as infallibles . The ___MASK40___ (; ', literally meaning " the recitation "; also romanized Qur ' an or Koran "') is the central ___MASK47___ of Islam , which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (" Allah "). It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature . The ___MASK40___ is divided into chapters (" surah " in Arabic ), which are then divided into verses (" ayah "). Arabic (' or ' ) is a Central Semitic ___MASK17___ that was first spoken in Iron ___MASK42___ northwestern Arabia and is now the " lingua franca " of the Arab world . Arabic also is a liturgical ___MASK17___ of 1 . 7 billion Muslims . It is one of six official languages of the United Nations . It is named after the Arabs , a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti - Lebanon mountains in the west , and from northwestern Arabia to the Sinai in the south . Majma `` al - Bayan fi - Tafsir al - Qur ' an ( Arabic :       ) is a tafsir by the 12th ___MASK31___ Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi . This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir . Tabarsi was a moderate scholar and he presented the views of all major commentators fairly and comprehensively . He gives special prominence to Shi ' i tafsir , but his work is not , strictly speaking , a Shi ' i commentary . Tabarsi was a man of great erudition . He was a master of Arabic and a noted theologian and jurist . The work is considered one of the most authoritative Imami Qur ' an commentaries . Al - Tabrisi ' s method is to take up one group of verses at a time and discuss qira  at , language and grammar before providing a detailed commentary on the ___MASK79___ , based on both Sunni and Shi `` i sources and incorporating his own views . His commentary for each passages are divided into five sections : introductory discourse , reading guide , language discourse , revelation and circumstances surrounding it , and meaning Majma ' al - bayan is written after Al - Tibbyan Fi Tafsir al - Quran and is clearly dependent on it . Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al - Modarresi ' s Tafsir Hedayat , an eighteen volume ___MASK28___ on the Quran published in Arabic in Iran in the 1980s , is in part a discussion of Majma `` al - bayan . ___MASK28___ ( from the Greek from , " to lead out ") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text , particularly a ___MASK47___ . Traditionally the term was used primarily for work with the Bible ; however , in modern usage " biblical exegesis " is used for greater specificity to distinguish it from any other broader critical text explanation . Tafsir is the Arabic ___MASK34___ for ___MASK28___ , usually of the Quran . An author of tafsir is a ( plural : ). A Quranic " tafsir " will often explain content and provide places and times , not contained in Quranic verses , as well as give the different views and opinions of scholars on the verse . Abu Ali Fadhl ibn Hasan Tabarsi ( Persian / Arabic :       ) known as Shaykh Tabarsi , was a 12th - ___MASK31___ Persian Shia scholar who died in 548 AH ( 1153 CE ).