Simile and representation in the Holy Quran

Abstract

The Holy Qur’an contains measured and rhyming prose, filled with the most effective proverbs and the most powerful similes. The best language that can explain rational knowledge and moral concepts to all people is representation. Acting, in terms of expressing secrets and revealing facts, presents imagination in the form of truth, and presents imagination with certainty. Representation has an effect on hearts to the extent that describing a thing alone does not have this effect, so one of the expressions of the Holy Qur’an is representation. The doctrinal and moral messages contained in Quranic representations can lead a person to happiness. Most of the Qur’anic representations are from the mental type to the tangible type, because this type of simile, through the similarity between the mental meaning and the tangible thing, embodies and depicts facts far from the human mind. In this way, it is easier for a person to understand many religious and mental concepts and leaves the greatest impact on his soul. In this article, after defining representation and simile and expressing their functions, there is an attempt to study the case of some neglected representations and examine their simile features to understand part of the expressive miracle of the Holy Qur’an. Keywords: simile, representation, miracle, the Holy Qur’an, rational teachings, religious concepts.