The Indicative Style of Elaboration after Summarization: A study of Qur’anic “Emphasis”

This paper deals with the study of [rhetorical] style of elaboration after
summarization and its purposes in the Holy Qur’an. This rhetorical style
features a great importance and significant impact on understanding the
Qur’anic meaning, and helps to elicit the implications of the Qur’anic text. This
study elaborates the purposes of the style of elaboration after summarization in
the Holy Qur’an. Through covering a number of Qur’anic verses incorporating
this style, it reflects a number of purposes, most important of which are:
motivation, emphasis, elucidation, exaltation, education upon obedience, and
hastening towards employing commands. These rhetorical purposes are
confirmed most clearly in Arabic literature and the Sunnah. However, the
Qur’anic style is uniquely distinctive, which is one of the manifestations of the
linguistic miracle of the Book of Allah, Almighty. To explain, the Holy Qur’an
follows the standard linguistic styles of Arabic, yet strikingly so unordinary to
Arabs who admitted their inability and weakness before the Qur’anic text