Analysis of Surah “al-Kāfirūn”: Linguistic, structural and rhetoric features (original) (raw)

At first sight, one could assume that Al-Kafirun seems relatively easy Surah due to its length and composition, especially comparing with other parts of the Qur’an, but it might be a quite superficial assessment. In fact, despite its length of six verses (ayat), Q 109 could shed some light not only on inter-textual consonance of the whole text of the Qur’an, but also on actual environment and context of its formation. Unfortunately, Q 109 has never been a proper focus of academic scholars, rather it has been merely mentioned in congruence and relation with other Surahs, or, at best, just some parts of it has been studied. So, this essay will elaborate and analyze Q 109 through the word-by-word observation of its linguistic, structural and rhetoric features.