Speech rationality in the Holy Quran (Case study: The principle of avoiding instability in speech)

Subject Areas : Quarterly Sabzevaran Fadak

seyed sajjad khosravi ^{1 *} , ebrahim noei ²

1 - researcher and student
2 - researcher and student

Received: 2022-01-04 Accepted : 2024-11-10 Published : 2025-01-04

Keywords: Speech rationality, Quran, Rationality, stability in speech,

Abstract :

Guiding people is one of the most important goals of the revelation of the Holy Quran, and God intends to reveal it in the form of spoken words. On the other hand, people, as the audience of these speeches, consider themselves only bound to accept the words whose speaker has committed himself to observe the principles known as the principles of rationality in speech. One of these principles is the speaker's avoidance of instability in speech. Just as people try not to waver in their speech and not to invalidate their previous speech with new speech, they also consider the speech of someone who does not have this stability in speech as lacking in rationality and do not consider it justified to accept it. Consequently, they do not expect guidance from that word. Some Orientalists have thought that the Qur'an did not adhere to this principle by referring to the abrogation verses in the Qur'an. This research, which was written through a library study and analysis of the Quranic works of Orientalist and Muslim scholars, has come to the conclusion that most of the doubts of the Orientalists occurred because they were not familiar with the Quranic sciences, and contrary to their belief, there were not many abrogations in the Quran and the existence of this The few cases of abrogation in the Qur'an during its 23-year revelation were in line with the guidance of humans and were reasonable and appropriate for the times.