Manifesting the Semantic Differences of the Words Love and Affection and Their Derivations in the Glorious Quran

Daad Younus Hussein Abdullah,Zulazhan Bin Ab Halim

doi:10.5539/ass.v14n12p176

Abstract

This research states the importance of love; that word with tender shadows and the one beloved by the human soul, and Islam reflects a special understanding for this word as it is a religion that acknowledges love as one of the most vital and effective human impulses and motives in the individual and collective behavior. It is also one of the paths to recognize Allah and approach him. There is no doubt that affection is a positive virtue because it is, in essence, a means to approve the bonds of love and intimacy and reviving them even if it represents an emotional and sentimental denotation, though it is originally a positive and practical tendency. Love is the polar of worship as loving the religion and its details is a sign of the faith perfection; loving Allah entails obeying his messenger peace be upon him and his tradition. There is a semantic difference between the two words: love and affection as love is what settled in the heart and affection is what was translated by the behavior and not every loving person is friendly and the human can love and this love does not show in his behavior and every friendly person has affection in his heart and its basis is the love feeling inside his heart, therefore the affection is the love which is not reflected. The current research relied on references that deal with the semantic differences as a partnership study conducted by Mosul University in Iraq and Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin in Malaysia.

Highlights

Arabic language is characterized with having too many synonyms and has being very precise in terms of the meanings of its vocabularies
Part two represented the practical aspect of the study and included two branches; the first tackled the word and in which the statistics of the Quranic verses that included the word love and its derivations which were diversified with a diversity of contexts and resulted in the denotation of love in the verbs and the denotation of in the verbal noun and the superlative form
While the second branch dealt with the word in which the statistics of the Quranic verses in which the word and its derivatives were mentioned, and this resulted in the denotation of in verbs and the denotation in verbal nouns

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Introduction

Arabic language is characterized with having too many synonyms and has being very precise in terms of the meanings of its vocabularies. Part two represented the practical aspect of the study and included two branches; the first tackled the word (love) and in which the statistics of the Quranic verses that included the word love and its derivations which were diversified with a diversity of contexts and resulted in the denotation of love in the verbs and the denotation of (love) in the verbal noun and the superlative form. After that comes the conclusion which displays the most important findings of the research This topic was not studied academically and there are no studies that show the type of relationship between the two words (love) and (affection), except for being mentioned in chapters or section included within university thesis and dissertations, books or other studies that dealt with this subject. This study dealt with the vocabularies of love, passion, inclination and affection and he stated the their lexical differences in addition to shifting with the word from the ass.ccsenet.org

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