What Makes the Quran a Miracle?  | @DawahWise Panel Answers
Channel: Dawah Digest
Date: 25/01/2024

A guest comes on the panel at @DawahWise and asks about the linguistic miracle of the Quran. Brother Mansur gives an in-depth explanation and a dialogue ensues with fellow guest panelists @TheMuslimCowboy  , @DawahDigest and Al Yemeni from the @SamDawahChannel.

Here is a small excerpt of some of the highlights of what the Quran touches up on linguistically from the paper titled "Oral and Written Traditions in the Preservation of the Authenticity of the Qur’an" :

...Its cohesiveness includes various methods such as parellelistic structures, phrasal ties, substitution, reference and lexical cohesion (Abdul-Raof, 2003d). These features provide the bedrock and hang together to create the Qur’an’s unique genre. In contrast, non-Qur’anic Arabic texts mostly employ cohesive elements but the Qur’an uses both cohesive and rhetorical elements in every verse (Abdul-Raof, 2001b). Furthermore, in contrast to the non-Qur’anic structure, this arrangement provides a pleasing, sweet acoustic effect, called euphony, which itself is a rhetorical feature (Abdul-Raof, 2000).
(Tzoris, 2008)

The frequency of rhetorical features in the Qur’an is unparalleled, surpassing any other Arabic text, classical or modern. These include Analogy (Qur’an 88:15–16 and 93:9-10); Alliteration (Qur’an 33:71 and 77:20); Antiphrasis (Qur’an 44:49); Antithesis (Qur’an 35:7 and 9:82); Asyndeton (Qur’an 13:2); Assonance (Qur’an 88:25-26 and 88:14-15); Cadence (present in the whole Qur’an); Chiasmus (Qur’an 3:27); Epizeuxis (Qur’an 94:5-6); Equivoque (Qur’an 24:43); Homonymy (Qur’an 2:14-15 and 3:54); Hyperbole (Qur’an 7:40, 33:10 and 39:71-72); Isocolon (Qur’an 65:7-10); Metaphor (Qur’an 19:4 and 21:18); Metonymy (Qur’an 54:13 and 6:127); Parenthesis (Qur’an 7:42 and 4:73); Polypton (Qur’an 80:25-26); Rhetorical Questions (Qur’an 55:60 and 37:91-92); Stress (Qur’an 29:62 and 3:92); and Synedoche (Qur’an 90:12-13), (Tzoris, 2004)...

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