Surat Al-Infitar in Terms of Qur’anic Style

Abstract

The Qur’an, which is revealed as a verbal-linguistic address, has revealed a new way of thinking parallel with the language system used by the interlocutor audience and the possibilities of this language. In order to actualize this address-addressee dialectic, it took into account the perceptions and concepts of the society it was revealed to and formed a common world view formed by the values of the society such as language, faith, culture, and history. In addition, it actualized the most beautiful transformation and change of the mindset by using the Qur’anic Style, namely, the Uslubu’l-Qur’an, which is the language’s own style of expression, verse, and language form. This study aims to identify the main subject of Surat Al-Infitar by taking into account the methods special to Uslubu’l-Qur’and offered as a linguistic method of understanding the Qur’an, and the relationship between the interlocutors and the environment they are in and explain the way this subject is expressed. In this sense, our study strives to see the constructional structure that plays a role in manifesting and turning the warning expressions for doomsday ‒like the sky will break apart, the stars will fall‒ into action mostly “here‒now” as a part of the Qur’anic style and deal with the surah in this framework. In this context, the surah talks about the cosmic changes that took place during the events of the doomsday which transforms into kalami action through Allah’s taqwini laws and turns this action into morality. In this sense, the verses ultimately emphasize “the coming of the revelation, its possibility, and its nature” through the reality of the change in the cosmic structure.