Imam Hussein's Supplication On the day of Arafah : a Linguistic study

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Supplication is a requestive act issued from an inferior to a superior in which a human being entreats Allah for mercy, forgiveness, pardon of guilt, help, and support.

This paper is an attempt to analyze Imam Hussein’s Peace be upon him Arafah supplication linguistically.

Consequently, it aims to find out the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of this supplication.

It is hypothesized that.

1.

the vocative and the imperative are extensively used in Imam Hussein’s Peace be upon him supplication; 2.

Implicit supplication is more commonly used than explicit one by Imam Hussein Peace be upon him.

After analyzing some texts taken from Imam Hussein’s Peace be upon him Arafah supplication, it has been concluded that the above hypotheses are verified.