Abstract:
The Holy Quran is the only lasting miracle of the noble Prophet of Islam (PBUH). Muslim scholars have enumerated various aspects to express the miracle of the Quran; one of those aspects is the eloquence, rhetoric, and attractiveness of the Quran. This aspect of the Quran differs from other discourses, even prophetic Hadiths. The expressive method of the Holy Quran is a divine innovation for conveying God's eternal message to humanity. We interpret this method as an aesthetic-taste perspective. In the present article, an attempt has been made to examine the historical progression of this perspective, which is interpreted as musical miracle or artistic miracle and similar terms, and also the order of these matters relative to each other has been explained: the musical miracle is a branch of the artistic miracle, and that is a branch of the miracle of the Quran, and it can be the central element and the soul of the expressive miracle, but from a fresh and new perspective.
Machine summary:
471 AH) believes in Dala'il al-I'jaz that: "The main way to recognize the eloquence and expressive power in the miraculous order of the Quran is through taste, spiritual feeling, and familiarity with the speech of the Arabs.
(Atr, 622-722) After al-Baqillani, Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, in his two books "Dala'il al-I'jaz" and "Asrar al-Balagha," has completely analyzed this dimension of the inimitability of the eloquence and fluency of the Quran, which are explained in the science of Ma'ani and Bayan.
»(الاتقان،651/2) Qutb al-Din al-Rawandi expressed a beautiful discourse about the characteristics of the Quran in the book "al-Khara'ij wa al-Jara'ih" has presented, and Allamah Majlisi in Bihar al-Anwar under the title 'Bab Wujuh I'jaz al-Qur'an' has included it.
»(حکیمی،031/2) Alusi in Ruh al-Ma'ani, Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafi'i in I'jaz al-Qur'an7 under the title Bab Wujuh I'jaz al-Qur'an, Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Durraz in al-Naba al-Azim8, Professor Amin al-Khuli including in the article "al-Balagha wa 'Ilm al-Nafs" in the Journal of the Faculty of Literature, December 63919, Ayatollah Khoei in al-Bayan01 and Farid Wajdi in the Encyclopedia11 have referred to this aspect or characteristic of the Quran, and to avoid verbosity, we refrain from quoting their full expressions.
Two contemporary Quranic scholars have provided complete explanations regarding the spiritual inimitability of the Quran, which is worthy of mention; one is Na'im al-Himsy in the book Fikrat I'jaz al-Qur'an and the other is Hassan Diya al-Din Itr in Bayinat al-Mu'jiza al-Khalida.
7-Muhammad Rafi'i, Mustafa Sadiq, I'jaz al-Quran wa Balaghat, translated by Abd al-Husayn ibn al-Din, Tehran, Quran Foundation Publications.