Phonetic significance in the Qur’an

Abstract

The great Qur’an focused its attention on stimulating the warmth of the word among the Arabs, and the glow of the expression in the perspective e of their li es. The Qur’anic rhetoric focused on achieving the music of the word in its sentences, the contrast of the letters in its composition, and the equivalence of the phonetic units in its syllables. The pronunciations of the words were balanced in tone, and the structures of the rhetoric were harmonious in sound. It chose for each case its own words that could not be replaced by others. Every word came in harmony with its mental image from one aspect, and with its auditory meaning from another aspect. What the ear enjoys, the soul finds palatable, and the emotion accepts is what is achieved in sweetness and tenderness, and what the neck stretches for, and the soul is wary of is what is achieved in warning and severity. Here the Qur’an alerts the inner feelings of man in arousing the emotion resulting from the climate of the words chosen in their locations in what they spread of a specific psychological effect, negatively and positively.