Swearing by Time in the Quranic Verses: A Linguistic Study and a ‎Universal Phenomen on Moreover

Swearing by Time in the Quranic Verses: A Linguistic Study and a ‎Universal Phenomen on Moreover

Mohammad Al-Bo’‎

public@mail.iugaza.edu

Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, Islamic University, Gaza, Palestine

Received : 19-05-2004 , Accepted : 20-02-2005

Language: Arabic

Abstract

This research examines swearing by time semantically and syntactically, indicating its purposes, the temporal expressions related to night and day, and their denotations. The study also illustrates the characteristics of the clause of swearing by time in the Quranic verses. More over, it discusses the scientific observations of how the Makki Chapters (suras) and the last section (Juzu') of the holy Quran are distinguished wity this kind of swearing and how this is related to the different universal phenomena in the balance between night and day in terms of their times and distributions of the earth.

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