Abstract:

Resignation is defined as the questioner's willingness to learn information about which he has no knowledge by using a question preposition. While the main purpose is the desire to obtain information, it can express different meanings such as denial, tawbîh, taaccûb, guidance, by going beyond this purpose, as it is frequently used in our daily life. It is seen that the prepositions of istifhâm are often used outside of the original meaning in the Qur'an, and the prepositions used to ask questions in the literal sense are less when compared to the figurative meaning, since the questions are generally directed from Allah to human beings. Due to the fact that the related meanings are obtained with interrogative prepositions without using the words allocated for them, its demand has been the subject of the science of meaning within the framework of the science of rhetoric, as a type of construction. This study, carried out in the example of Surah Baqarah, from which we can obtain more data due to being the longest surah in the Qur'an, aims to reveal the semantic dimensions of the prepositions by determining the number of prepositions of istifham used in Surah Baqara and for what purposes they are used other than the literal meaning and literal meaning.

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