The Miraculous Proportionality between Supplication and Response

Abstract

The current research paper tackles ‘ijaz (miraculous) proportionality in supplication (invocation) and response, showing the coherence of its parts and demonstrating the structural proportionality in the Quranic nazm (co-occurrence of words). The study opens with an introduction, which explains the descriptors in the title, and moves to discuss three main topics, and then ends with a conclusion that reports the main findings.

The first topic, entitled ranks of supplication, consists of two sections, the first included the categories of supplication in which examples are classified in three supplication categories: begging, patience and waiting for response, and evoking Allah's support. The second section refers to content of supplication requests in which the requests target matters of everyday life, matters of life hereafter, or general well-being.

The second topic deduces the stylistic features of supplication seen in commencing supplication by invocation, innovation of new presentations, preparation for the supplication, repetition of certain utterances in the request, adherence to prepositional and adverbial forms, and the proportionality between the supplication and the conclusion in words and meaning.

The third topic deduces the stylistic features of the response as realized in the manner of the commencement of the response, and the proportionality between the response and the conclusion in words and meaning.

Finally, I ask Allah to grant us support and righteousness, and to bestow upon us the ability to contemplate the perfect meanings of the Holy Quran, for all the blessing are His.