اُسلوب قرآن میں تقدیم و تاخیر اور خفاء معنیٰ کی مباحث

The Debates of Anaphoric , Cataphoric and Implicit Meaning in the Quranic Diction

Abstract

There are two possibilities of the word assignment that have been spoken by the speaker. Firstly, all the parts of speech are assigned by their original position as they should be in the sentence; this is known as an ordinary style of speaking. On the contrary, the speaker may change the order of one part or more than one part of speech to gain literal and semantic advantages, this is known as Alteration in the word placement ( Taqdeem wa Takheer ) in terminology. In Arabic literature, this rhetoric style is used abundantly and no doubt, within itself, this style of speaking has many features. But on the other side, it is a reality that this style of speaking is difficult to understand for readers and listeners too, as the reader is familiar with the ordinary style. So, whenever the reader confronts a sentence or Quranic verse comprised of this special style, he gets the meaning based on the ordinary style that is entirely different from the meaning the speaker wants to deliver. That is the reason some scholars declare this style a hindrance and difficulty to understanding the meaning of the Quran, therefore, they also make mandatory to have some technical know-how of this style for the readers of the holy Quran and the persons who deliver the interpretation of the Quran.