Transformation Process of Expiration in Qur anic Semantics

Recognition the last Divine Scripture and Prophet Muhammad (SA) 's eternal miracle is due to a real recognition of every Qur’an words. It is accomplished by focusing on descent age's conditions including audience, time and place of verses descent and so on. One of these words is ''Expiration'' (مىث). We must find out its meaning before and after the descent. Originally, it means ''Death'' which is its well-known meaning. At first, it referred to separations of spirit from body because this event had been tangible to human being. This word seems had not a remarkable transformation over the time. However, it had several virtual meaning (e. g. misleading, ignorance, and …) after its descent. Also, it has been divided into some kinds of idiomatic meanings by mystics. We are going to deal with its historical semantics, and then, its transformation process as well as its Qur’anic semantics will be discussed.