A Comparative Study of Cohesion Factors in Surah Al-Muzzammil and Persian Translation by Musavi Garmarudi: Halliday and Hassan’s Cohesion Theory

Cohesion is a significant aspect of the Quranic language. As a matter of fact, cohesion refers to the structural-lexical relations within a text and it is a textual mechanism bringing text sentences together. Halliday’s (1976) model of cohesion was complemented by Hassan’s (1984) cohesion theory. The present study discusses and examines cohesion and cohesive devices in Surah Al-Muzzammil (the seventy-third chapter of the Qur’an) and its translation by Musavi Garmarudi. The findings suggested that all cohesive devices were employed at a non-structural level in this Surah and its translation. More specifically, lexical cohesion included reiteration, synonym, antonym, hyponymy, meronymy, equivalence and naming. Additionally, grammatical cohesion contained reference types, substitution and ellipsis. This paper also showed that there is a strong connection and cohesion among various components of the Surah and its translation, which is a basis for understanding the miracles of the Qur’an. Also, such a high degree of similarity between the source text and the target text indicated that the translator was successful in conveying the cohesive devices to the target text.