Abstract
According to specialists of Arabic rhetorical sciences, the sublime Qur’an, the word of God, is miraculous in terms of words, order, expression and content. Its eloquence is so extraordinary that it has been challenging for fourteen hundred years the greatest literary geniuses, the most wonderful orators, and the most profound scholars among mankind to compete with it, to produce alike of it, or the like of even one of its surahs. But no one has been able to open his mouth in competition of the Qur’an. The research paper at hand attempts to highlight rhetorical beauties of surah al Qadr. Although comprising of only five verses, this surah carries an ocean of meaning and eloquence. These rhetorical peculiarities among others include simile, metaphor and metonym.
Keyword(s)
Surah al-Qadr, Qur’anic eloquence, Metaphor, Simile, Metonym