Analysis of the Qur’anic evidence for the perception of beings with a focus on verses about praise and testimony

One of the issues that have attracted the attention of scholars is the perception of all beings. This is what the Qur’an provides evidence for. The basic question is how the tasks of praise and testimony can be attributed to the perception that runs through the whole universe. As an attempt to answer this question, the present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to, first of all, classify the pieces of the Qur’anic evidence in this regard and then assess the perception of beings on the basis of the verses about praise and testimony. As the results of the study indicate, perception in the sense of general knowledge or awareness is to be taken for granted by virtue of the semantic associations and the verses about praise and testimony. Of course, as verse 43 in chapter Noor suggests, it is possible to extrapolate perception to all beings. By and large, it is concluded that everything has a certain degree of awareness, but the details or all the aspects this awareness are not and cannot be known to human beings.