The effect of rhetoric - taste and rules – on Qur’anic interpretation

Abstract

The research addresses the role of rhetorical taste and the role of rhetorical rules in understanding and interpreting the Book of God Almighty by explaining their impact on the sciences of the Qur’an and the Qur’an influence on it, and by explaining their impact on the Qur’an interpretation lesson. Rhetorical taste and rhetorical rules can be shown as a tool for clarification of the meaning and an expansion of the possible connotations under the Qur’anic verses, or as an explanation of the scientific chapters that can be approached using the tools of rhetorical taste and rhetorical rules. Moreover, they can be also shown as a weighting method between the possible meanings of the verses. According to this points, it becomes clear that rhetorical taste, the rules of rhetoric,  dictation that it leads to rhetorical taste, all of  Arabs’ methods of eloquence and knowledge of the declarative characteristics and customs of the Qur’an is are necessary conditions and  indispensable for the Qur’an interpreter, especially for those who seek to renew it.