جماليّة التّلطّف في التّعبير القرآنيّ:  دراسةٌ في الألفاظ الواصفة للعلاقة الحميمة بين الزّوجين

Salem Khalil AlAqtash; Mohammad Hussein Ahmad Faqeeh

doi:10.35516/Hum.2025.8255

Authors

Salem Khalil AlAqtash Department of Arabic Language and Literature, College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Ain University, City Al Ain, United Arab Emirates https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2354-9517
Mohammad Hussein Ahmad Faqeeh Department of Arabic Language and Literature, College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Ain University, City Al Ain, United Arab Emirates https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8426-5839

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/Hum.2025.8255

Keywords:

Quranic expression, euphemisms, linguistic prohibitions, intimate relationship

Abstract

Objectives: This research aims to study the terminology describing the intimate relationship between spouses in the Holy Quran, to elucidate the opinion of lexicographers and interpreters on this issue, and to reveal the beauty of euphemisms in the Quranic expression and the semantics and hidden meanings behind these terms.

Methods: The researchers adopt extrapolation and analytical methods by inducing relevant terms and restricting them to Quranic discourse with the aim of analyzing their meanings from an instinctive point of view related to marital intercourse. These two methods helped the researchers ascertain the levels of Quranic expression and extract words that carry aesthetic and temperate value, helping to establish and empower their meanings. In doing so, the researchers relied on dictionaries and interpretation books.

Results: The aesthetics of gentleness embedded in the semantics of terms describing the intimate relationship between spouses in the Quranic expression are based on a framed nature, in which the limits of words and their meanings are carefully taken into account.

Conclusions: When employing words describing the intimate relationship between spouses, the Holy Quran represents a sublime model, a refined style, and a selectivity of an eloquent nature, in which gentleness, refinement, chastity, and consideration of modesty and decency are prevalent and unique. The Holy Quran addresses the relationship without faltering, while observing restrictions to ensure that lust is not aroused.

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