CONNOTATION OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION’S WORDS IN THE QURANIC CONTEXT

Abstract

The researcher in the words, phrases, structures, style, and semantics of the Noble Qur’an is unable
to reach its end, for its wonders do not end. Like a wading in a deep sea, he may catch only some of
his pearls and jewels. There are many Quranic studies in our contemporary time, and it has taken
various and advanced directions that combine the old heritage with the new contemporary books of
language, literature and criticism. The first part - the ancient heritage - is represented in the works
of interpretation and the sciences of the Qur'an, while the second part includes contemporary
analytical and descriptive studies such as grammar, morphology, rhetoric, logic and other machine
sciences. All these studies were attempts to show the linguistic, rhetorical, stylistic and literary
miracles of the Holy Qur’an, and also to highlight the characteristics of the Qur’an concerning its
vocabulary and composition, which distinguished it from the Arabic language, and to clarify its
linguistic and semantic phenomena. This research is concerned with the study of some of the words
of the Holy Qur’an related to the Day of Resurrection and to focus on their lexical and contextual
significance. The focus of the research is determined by listing the words mentioned in the Holy
Qur’an, which express the Day of Resurrection in the single word, such as Al-Tama ‘Overwhelming
Calamity’, Al-Qari’a ‘Striking Calamity’, Al-Ghashia ‘Overwhelming [event]’… etc, or compound words,
such as the Day of Resurrection and the Day of At-Taghabun ‘Day of Deprivation’, or a metaphor as
in Almighty’s saying “The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail” (Qura’n 26: 88). The study
dealt with the significance of those words, which are descriptions of the Day of Resurrection, just like
the multiplicity of descriptions of the sword in Arabic. Therefore, the study aims to highlight the fact
that every word that came in its place cannot be replaced by another, and this is one of the features
of the Qur’an that is specific to it without the language.