The Stylistic Shifts in the Interpretation of the Meanings of the Qur’anic Text: A Stylistic View of the Verses on Family Education

Abstract

This study examines Qur’anic stylistic shifts and their semantic effects, focusing on family-education verses that embody exalted human values promoting justice, tolerance, and solidarity while rejecting tyranny and exclusion. Family values, integral to the Qur’an’s ethical system, are prioritised as society’s foundation and primary nurturer of youth.

Analysing semantic (metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, concision, repetition), structural (deletion, advancement, postponement), and rhythmic (cadence, alliteration, verse endings) shifts, it demonstrates that these deliberate deviations represent the apex of linguistic creativity and eloquence, not normative violations.

The core finding: Qur’anic eloquence and inimitability reside in its unique style—each sentence irreplaceably positioned; any alteration distorts the intended meaning.

The most important conclusion reached is that the interpretation of the eloquence and miraculous nature of the Qur'an stems from and returns to its style; all sentences in the Qur'an are based on unique linguistic styles. Indeed, changing the positions of those sentences would cause the loss or vagueness of meaning, a fact that would result in having meanings different from the one(s) conveyed in the verses.