Challenging verses in the Qur’an The Holy One (semantic rhetorical study)
Abstract
This research aims to study the challenging verses contained in the Holy Quran, from a rhetorical and semantic point of view, in order to highlight the arts, declarative methods, and pleasant meanings in them, and to show the aspects of difference or agreement in them that distinguish them from other verses.The study consisted of two sections: The first was about the rhetorical and semantic secrets of the challenge verses, and the second was about the aspects of agreement and differences between those verses.The researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach to the text, to reach results, the most important of which are:The strength of the connection between the challenging verses and the opening of the surahs contained in them. We find that three of them opened their surahs with disjointed letters indicating that the Quran is miraculous with its words, their arrangement, and their composition, even though they are composed of those letters known to the Arabs. The verse of the Night Journey was devoid of that oath, and for this reason it was designated with an oath at the beginning of the verse. As for the verse of Al-Tur, the surah opened with an oath with a book. God Almighty frankly, without exaggeration or innuendo.Then the verses of challenge were distinguished and agreed upon in the selection of precise and precise words in all of them, which fulfilled their general purpose, which is the challenge and miracle of the Holy Quran, including: (So they came), which indicates the inability of the addressees to come up with something like the Holy Quran in wording, composition, and harmony, and the collective expression (Call upon). Evidence of the completeness of the challenge and its generalization to all creatures, whether humans or jinn, Arabs or non-Arabs, few or many.