Rhetoric Meanings and Significances in Sūrat Al-Raḥmān – A Case Study of Ījāz al-Qur’ān

Abstract

Ma’ānī (rhetorics), Bayān (stylistics) and Badī‘ (literary embellishments) are literary and aesthetic features of Qur’ān. Many Arab scholars have as much as revealed a lot of illusions about Ījāz al-Qur’ān for the cause of Qur’ān; a miracle Text of Almighty Allāh. Their comprehensive contributions to the phenomenon of Qur’ānic Ījāz had elaborated this greatly. Sūra al-Raḥmān has much rhetoric, stylistics and literary embellishments based features. They enable their readers to apprehend surface as well as deeper meanings in order to explore Qur’ānic miracle. So the following paper intends to explore variant rhetoric aspects of Qur’ān. Chapter 55 (Al- Raḥmān) has exclusively been fused to comprehend rhetoric characteristics adopted by Qur’ān. The Ījāz of Qur’ān has Wonderfully granted challenge-ability to realize people; Arabians, who were yet disbelievers, are unable to accept Qur’ān’s challenge to bring down even a single word that has ability to be equally eloquent any other word used by Qur’ān