PENAFSIRAN ESOTERIS AYAT-AYAT TENTANG NUR DALAM TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN AL-‘AZHIM KARYA SAHAL BIN ABDULLAH AL-TUSTARI

Nu>r is one of the main vocabularies and the name of sura in the Qur'an. Nu>r, which is often interpreted as light, is one of the theme that interest many mufassirs, especially Sufi’s mufassir. One of them is Sahal bin ‘Abdullah al-Tustari. He lived at the beginning of the 3rd century H. His most famous book is Tafsir al-Qur’an al-‘Azim. This Tafsir book is one of the first Tafsir in the field of Sufi interpretation which until now, in the introductin of his book he said: "The meaning of Dzahir is a general meaning that has been read through his words. Whereas the inner meaning is the meaning of the understanding it contains, the specific meaning desired. " Interpreting the Koran with this model is not only enough to struggle with language, but there is an aspect of nur given by Allah in the heart of a person who is clean of soul and mind. Therefore, the theme of nur among Sufis has an important position for the enlightenment of the human soul in guiding and finding true happiness and truth. The purpose of this study is to try to explore and explain the interpretation of the verses about nur and its interpretation patterns in the book of Tafsir al-Qur’an al-‘Azim by Sahal bin ‘Abdullah al-Tustari. The method used in this research is descriptive-analytical with the term thematic, which is a method that collects all the relevant verses in the same theme and then analyzes them one by one. This research found. First, Sahal bin ‘Abdullah al-Tustari's interpretation of verses about nur is divided into two parts: first, the interpretation related to verses which directly contains al-nur's wording in it. Second, the interpretation of nur in verses that does not contain al-nur's wording. Which has implications for two kinds of interpretations, namely exoteric and esoteric. As for the result, there are eight meanings of nur explained by Sahal al-Tustari in his commentary and the theory of nur Muhammad is the most strikingly significant meaning in his esoteric interpretation. Second, regarding his interpretation pattern, Sahal al-Tustari does not use a regular pattern in explaining interpretation about nur. Al-Tustari only interprets verses which according to him need to be interpreted according to the indications which he found in those verses.