The expressive revelations of the body verses in the Holy Qur’an – an objective study

Master Thesis

Student: Duaa Jabbar Obaid Kazem

Supervised by:Dr. Sakina Aziz Al-Fatli

Major: Sharia and Islamic Sciences

Publish Date: 2024

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Abstract

Non-verbal communication is one of the expressive means used by the Holy Qur’an through the use of body language. The research noted that the expressive suggestiveness indicated by the organs of the human body is many and varied, and it carried different connotations distributed among the blessed verses of the Qur’an and on many topics. Some of them were used In situations of goodness, some of them were used in situations of destruction and torment, according to the Qur’anic context in which they occurThat silent language carried expressive connotations, and it indicates the Qur’anic miracle in employing that language to reveal meanings by means of a gesture and an indicative glance. One of the indications of its miracle is that you find a single member of the human body being employed in an influential rhetorical manner that carries high implications, calling for adherence to the purpose for which For the sake of which God created man, it is worship, and divine warnings and messages calling for employment have been issued The organs of the human body in the field of goodness and the call to adhere to the divine values and virtues because this adherence leads to salvation and winning God’s approval. That is why these suggestive movements varied to include the various organs of the body, starting with the head and what it contains of the eyes and neck, passing through the hands and ending with the legs and the significance of their movement and what results from those movements. From various suggestions, and we do not forget to mention the issue of the partial branches included in a single organ. According to the parts of that organ, and each organ has its own movements that lead to intense meanings and connotations, that is, there is an accumulation of meaning in the Qur’anic text, and the use of each of its movements in many places reveals this accumulation of meaning, and it is undoubtedly something that human nature is incapable of because it is by nature limited. Perfection alone belongs to God, the Creator, who encouraged contemplation of the texts and contents of the Qur’an, and this contemplation was one of the goals of this research.