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|b This paper is entitled "Personification in the Quranic ExpressionIt aims at unfolding the rhetorical personification images in the Holy Book of Quran, investigating them, and questioning them for their elements of beauty and the purposes behind them. Personification is the attribution of human qualities to the inanimate; it means addressing, abstract, and immaterial things as if they were human beings. Such things then could be treated as if they had senses and feelings, i.e., as human of reason. \ The paper consists of three sections: personification of natural elements and phenomena, psychical, and mental personification respectively. \ Most significantly, the study has found out that many of the artistic Quranic images have been based on personification in a miracle rhetorical style of the Quranic expression. The Holy Quran presents spoken moving vivid images that are full of life, renewal, and restoration, especially those of natural elements and phenomena. Most of such images are sensuous and visual that best suit the Arabian environment and the Arabs as recipients at the time of revelation. This explicates why the psychical personification images come next while the mental images come later. Thus, in the Quranic expression, the psychical images interpose between the sensuous and the mental images. All these types of image have their own social, psychological, and artistic purposes simultaneously in a way that lead people to believe in Allah the Almighty.
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