The Requirements of Elevating Personal and Social Ethics in Light of the Linguistic Reading of the Holy Quran

The holy Quran, as the most comprehensive charter of human life and the manual of worldly and the Hereafter bliss, is the most essential source of knowledge for all those who have common sense. The correct understanding of the promoting and humanistic teachings of this sacred text that, in the form of its very human language, is the originator of the best human life, has been and still is one of the most important occupations of Quranic scholars and researchers. Undoubtedly, the traditional potentials of rhetorics alone are not sufficient for extracting the aesthetic aspects of the Quran and explaining its distinct meanings in a scientific and systematic manner. Hence, the present article aims to discover and analyze some of the Quranic requirements that elevate individual and social ethics of human beings, especially Muslims, using the fundamentally structured knowledge of modern linguistics which does not consider linguistic intuition very important. The examination of the Quranic data revealed that each verse is focused on a certain type of conceptualization, and its understanding should be based on the same conceptualization. Therefore, in a verse in which one word has been apparently omitted, replaced another word, etc., it is necessary for the verse to remain as it is so that the main message latent in it can be extracted as the holy Quran has contributed distinct meanings to various spheres of human life through the application of these linguistic structures. Also, lexical substitution, deliberate reduction and increase in the volume of vocabulary (concision, verbosity), utilization of meaningful inflectional structures (word formation), etc. are among the most commonly used mechanisms of every grammar, especially Arabic grammar, and beyond the utilization of each one of them in the holy Quran, lie delicate, life-giving ethical requirements.