A master’s thesis was discussed in the College of Islamic Sciences at the University of Karbala tagged (Guidelines for reading in the Qur’anic text – a study in receiving Surat Al-Kawthar between the ancients and the modernists) by the student Ahmed at nine o’clock in the morning on Thursday, corresponding to 7/20/2023, and in the hall of Imam Hussein (PBUH) in the college.

This study is based on a simple postulate: How do we understand the work of the textual vectors and those surrounding the text in directing the Qur’anic significance when reading and understanding the text, based on the exegetical code that dealt with the Qur’anic text represented by one surah that is considered one of the shortest suras of the Holy Qur’an, which is Surat al-Kawthar.

The study took upon itself to examine the multiple readings that emerged from the referral of the word (al-Kawthar) in this Surah to each of the commentators – the sample of the lesson – and based on the culture and belief of the interpreter, which had the greatest role in investing the external directives represented by (the title of the text, the place of revelation, and its reasons) and the internal directives represented by (the four levels), which necessarily constitute every linguistic text, including the text of the Qur’an j.

This study resulted in the most important results:
1- All the texts, chapters, and phrases, short or long, in the Holy Qur’an are included in the chapter on miracles, with which the Qur’an challenged the masters of eloquence and eloquence to come up with the same, and from that chapter is this chapter, which is the shortest chapter of the Holy Qur’an.
2- The texts of the Holy Qur’an, including its short texts (such as Surat al-Kawthar), constituted a fertile field for interacting with multiple readings across different times, due to the inexhaustible ability that this text contains, and the energy of expression and renewed content throughout the ages embodied in the texts of interpretations and their movement that did not know stopping and annihilation.
3- Surat Al-Kawthar confirmed that the mental activity of its recipient is an activity that is subject to many influences that the text directs to the recipient, who picks up the existing signs in the text according to his culture, awareness, and doctrinal thought, which determines the paths of reading according to his knowledge dictates and controls specific to this approach.

The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Nawras Ibrahim Abd al-Hadi from the University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences – Chairman, and Prof. Dr.: Hana Jawad Abdel Sada – from the University of Babylon – College of Islamic Sciences as a member: and Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Rahi Saadoun from the University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences as a member, and Prof. Dr. Ali Muhammad Yassin from Karbala University – College of Islamic Sciences as a member and supervisor, and the thesis was approved with a very good grade.