Exploring the Meaning of Beautiful Adjectives of “Al-Rahmān” and “Al-Rahīm,” with a Structural Morphological Approach

In the sphere of Qur’anic words, “Al-Rahmān” and “Al-Rahīm” are two beautiful names of God Almighty that have a special place among the God’s names and are mentioned together in a very important verse of Bismila as well as some other verses. Clearly to achieve the Qur’anic knowledge, one inevitably needs to understand these words. However, there are different views on this issue, which are critically often considerable. An important problem in this regard seems to be the lack of effort in analyzing the grammatical structure of these words; Therefore, this research tries to discover their meanings with a grammatical structure through a descriptive-analytical method. It seems that according to the structure of “fa'lān” and “fa'īl,” the word Al-Rahmān indicates the full innate mercy of God. Also the word Al-Rahīm which is rooted in the description of Al-Rahmān refers to the continuous mercy of God, the Glorified. Accordingly, and because of some other inevitable reasons, the phrase “Al-Rahmān al-Rahīm” can be translated (in Persian) as “پرمهر مهرورز” (Full Mercy and Merciful).