The effect of the meaning of both in pausing and beginning with it in the Holy Quran

Abstract

The grammatical tool (Kalla) has received the attention of most grammarians and linguists, as it is a tool for a harsh deterrent response, and a response to what preceded it from the contexts, and also as a tool for alerting and receiving what is coming from those contexts; it is never absent from speech and it can never be dispensed with.

If we were to examine the extent of this word’s role in speech and its details, we would find that it has great importance. As will become clear through this study, it encompasses many speech situations without which the context is not complete or fully realized. Since it is originally intended for deterrence and rebuke in its linguistic basis, it was necessary for it to be in the Meccan Qur’an, and in that there is consideration for the condition of the addressees, and what is appropriate to their nature and arrogance, where there are strong words that strike their ears and fill their hearts with fear of the One and Only Lord, who did not beget nor was begotten and there is none comparable to Him, and that is one of its characteristics.

In addition to its brevity, this tool is a word that carries many meanings and evokes numerous connotations that open up the field of interpretation. In any case, it is generally estimated in conjunction with what precedes it; thus, it confirms and reiterates the content of what came before. If its content, which may be clarified by contextual clues, indicates what comes after it, then it serves as a warning and a prelude to what follows.

For this reason and others, it has been the subject of numerous studies. Therefore, the matter requires serious research that reveals the contexts in which this tool is preferred, uncovers its secrets, and explains its implications. I hope this study will be a step in this direction, and that other studies will follow; for the words of God's Book are inexhaustible, and the gifts of His revelation are limitless. Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds..