Bijan Karami mir azizi; Asgar Babazadeh aghdam; Shabnam Bahrami; Zahra Ghasempour Ganjehlu
Abstract
Semantics, as a branch of linguistic, is a knowledge that analyzes the meaning of the words and sentences of a text. With this knowledge, we can recognize the exact positions of the words and their compound forms through a semantic system. The word "jihad", a very important word in the Quran, is considered ...
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Semantics, as a branch of linguistic, is a knowledge that analyzes the meaning of the words and sentences of a text. With this knowledge, we can recognize the exact positions of the words and their compound forms through a semantic system. The word "jihad", a very important word in the Quran, is considered from this perspective. This word is one of the complex concepts that has long been the focus of attention in Islamic schools, and its frequent appearance throughout the Quran indicatives its importance. The present study seeks to answer these two questions: What are the collocations and replacements for the word Jihad? And what are semantic factors of this word? Thus after considering about forty-one verses of the Holy Quran and pragmatic analyses of jihad, we found that the term jihad has the connotation of soft wars and power which is quite the opposite of the general view towards it, considering it as a war with weapons. Accordingly, it often means power and war-like software. That is to say, it focuses on promising, advising, and preaching. Therefore, by this way, we can dispel the unfair propagations, especially in the present time that the enemies of Islam try to propagate so called Islam with power and swords.
Abstract
Human beings, as they are moving toward Allah, are in a constant fight with the Inciting Nafs, which incites to evil. The current study was designed in a descriptive-analytic manner and it was aimed to identify Quranic Instructions on how to fight the Inciting Nafs, which has been done by studying Holy ...
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Human beings, as they are moving toward Allah, are in a constant fight with the Inciting Nafs, which incites to evil. The current study was designed in a descriptive-analytic manner and it was aimed to identify Quranic Instructions on how to fight the Inciting Nafs, which has been done by studying Holy verses and employing semiology. According to Holy Qur’an, there exist three sets of skills to fight the Inciting Nafs, namely cognitive skills (raising awareness towards Akhirah (the Hereafter) and the outcomes of following the Inciting Nafs and also realizing the presence of Allah in every second of our lives), behavioral skills (being responsive to instructions, demonstrating purposeful obedience and delimiting what we see) and spiritual skills (faith, connectedness, piety and forbearance). It was concluded that to fight the Inciting Nafs, human beings have to follow Quranic Instructions and in this way, they will reach the ultimate happiness, desired in their fitrah. Otherwise, they will be as vile as the animals, since they have followed the evils of the Inciting Nafs.
