The Stylistic Analysis of Surah Inshiqaq in Terms of Phonetics, Composition, and Rhetoric

Document Type : Scholary

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1 Department of Qur’ān and hadīth Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Shahid Madani Azerbaijan, Tbriz, Iran

2 Department of Qur’ān and hadīth Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

3 Department of Qur’ān Sciences, Faculty of qur’ānic Sciences, University of Sciences and Education of the Holy Quran, Amol, Iran

4 Department of Islamic studies, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar University of Maritime and Marine Sciences, Chabahar, Iran

10.22059/jcis.2025.373063.1373

Abstract

Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics that examines descriptions of literary aspects in a text and conveys its meanings clearly to the reader. The Holy Qur’ān is a divine miracle which can be studied as a literary text as well. In recent years, the literary and stylistic topics of the Qur’ān have received more attention from researchers. In this regard, the following article has analyzed Surah Inshiqaq in three levels of phonetic, compositional and rhetorical, using the descriptive-analytical method and the knowledge of stylistics, to make the literary and semantic aspects of the Surah more obvious. The results obtained indicated that the phonetic employed in Surah Inshiqaq has made the surah melodious, and attracts the audience’s attention to by using Saj'. Furthermore, at the Compositional level, by using sentences such as "dedication" and "delays," it undermines the beliefs and opinions of polytheists. In addition, at the rhetorical level, by using the bound and omission style, it points to God's ownership, implying that everything occurs by His permission.

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Classical and Contemporary Islamic Studies
Volume 7, Issue 2
July 2025
Pages 149-158

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