التماسك الدلالي في سورة الدخان

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This study sought to explore the aesthetics of the Qur’anic text, and to prove the inimitability of its linguistic system by highlighting the semantic textual cohesion markers in Surat Al-Dukhan.

The descriptive analytical approach was employed through collecting materials, analyzing data and interpretating verses based on the books of exegesis, other sciences of the Qur’an, and modern text linguistics.

The study dealt with the context and coherence of discourse topics in the surah, and the role of semantic interrelations in achieving this semantic coherence.

Results confirmed the effect of the overall context of the surah, the harmony of the discourse topics, the semantic interrelations between the verses in text units, in achieving the semantic coherence of the surah.

Surat Al-Dukhan enjoys a harmonious fabric in which all the units of the surah are connected to the nucleus of the text.

These units are cohesively connected like overlapping circles that revolve around the axis of the text, which is giving warning to those who deny the resurrection and the punishment of God, which represents the core of the surah.

Many factors were combined within the surah to achieve its core purpose, such as warning by stimulating the senses; visual, tactile and gustatory signs of torture.

Other factors include reference to accounts of previous peoples who were punished to prove the validity of the warning.

Others include the denial of absurdity in creating the universe to show the seriousness of the warning, and the consistent threatening by the great smoke that would blanket the people as mentioned at the beginning of the surah and repeated at the end of it.