The speech act of supplication in Islam

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This study aims at 1- investigating the communicative functions of illocutionary forms of the prophets and every day ritual supplications 2-showing the different types of supplications 3- the difference in terminology between the Muslims and Christians.

It is hypnotized that 1- there are different illocutionary forms used by the supplicant to communicate with His Lord.

2-different illocutionary forms are controlled by the several situations and psychological feelings to convey his message to His God.

Data of this work is collected from supplications of the prophets in Qur'an and every day supplications of (Al- Nawawy ) reference.

After analyzing data, the study has come up with some results that supplication in Islam has a lot of communicative functions, such as request, address, thank, praise, repentance, worship, which has proven the hypothesis (1) there are different illocutionary forms used by the supplicant to communicate with His Lord.

Muslims from time to time ask God to increase their faith to forgive them for their sins or pertaining to the world or to increase in wealth, or to be cured from diseases, or to be granted more children, this proves hypothesis (2) which says different illocutionary forms are controlled by the supplicant's situation and psychological Speech Act of Supplication in Islam