Holy Qurʾān and the Alleged Children of Almighty Allah; A Discourse Analysis of the Marginalization of an Old Discourse

Language is an efficient tool that affects the audience in a wonderful but hidden way. To reveal this hidden influence, the method of discourse analysis is a significant tool. Therefore, this study aims to present a discourse analysis of the critique of the discourse of having children of Almighty Allah in the Qurʾān by using the tools of text analysis and the discourse theory of Lacla and Moff and to show what linguistic strategies and how the Qurʾān has used to criticize this discourse and influence the audience. The result is that the Qurʾān has used various language strategies to weaken the mentioned discourse. Some of the tools that the Qurʾān uses for this purpose are: Negation, repetition, attribution of negative signifiers to the signifier under criticism, assigning special signs to alleged children, persuasion through argument, persuasion through analogy and rhetorical questions. Also, the Qurʾān has represented a negative identity of those who claim to be Allah's children with debilitating signs. And on the other hand, by using the chain of equivalence, Allah the Most Exalted has given a positive identity in opposition to having children; and in this way, it has pushed the audience away from the discourse of having children and towards the discourse of the Qurʾān. In general, the Qurʾān has pushed the mentioned discourse to the sidelines with its solutions. Unlike their contemporaries, the beliefs of the Muslims of the descent era remained intact from the idea of having a child for Almighty Allah.