THE ONTOLOGIC AND COSMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF THE ART“ILTIFAT” IN KORAN FROM THE POINT OF THE TIME
KUR’AN’DA “ZAMAN” MERKEZLİ “İLTİFAT” SANATININ ONTOLOJİK VE KOZMİK YANSIMALARI

Author : Necdet ÇAĞIL
Number of pages : 1-17

Abstract

The one of the characteristics of Koranic rhetoric which is unique is that it uses tenses agreed with stage descriptions of the creating that it presents. This study, as a sort of art of “iltifat” (variation of tenses) aims to give thoughts about that how Koran presents cosmic and natural events, paralleled to passing between tenses. The study deals with the riches of meaning that formed by passing between past and present tenses together with that Koran presents descriptions relating to both creation of cosmos and its functioning. With the exception of some verbs which explain the stages of Doomsday and the Next World (Last Judgment) and so they come in form of past tense, referring to they express the definitiveness, the cosmic events is depicted with past tense, because it displays constancy and permanence, when the present tense presents natural events to the observing which is being a means of regenerations and renovations.

Keywords

Glorious Koran, cosmos, cosmology, past tense, present tense.

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