Analysis Of Quranic Stylistics In Surat Al-Kahf

Studying literary stylistics by critics is one way of understanding the style of a writer, to discover the way he thinks and to, for some cases, criticize an author. But when we study the Quranic stylistics, we learn how the words are linked together to create a new form of discourse. In this paper, I am going to examine the Quranic stylistics in Surat Al-Kahf, the eighteenth's Surah in the holy Quran. Surat Al-Kahf consists of 110 verses or Ayah, those verses are divided into five main stories; the men of the cave, the master and the garden, Iblis the rebel, the journey of Moses, and Thu al- Qarnayn. I will concentrate on the story of Moses and Al-Khadir, verses from 60 to 82. I have, also, divided this story into four parts or episodes

I think this change in the rhythm is due to the change in situation, so that, when Moses leads the journey with his boy Allah uses tri-syllable word, but when he follows Al Khadir to learn from him, the situation has changed and also the tone and the Quranic rhythm changed into bi-syllable; to teach us that when we follow our teachers or when we follow those whom we get knowledge from, we should use shorter syllables as a kind of politeness and respect (my interpretation).
Finally, people use language to share their experiences and this language is expressed through a well-structured narrative, like what we read in Quran. The narrative of Quran has a purpose, and that purpose is to motivate the believers to keep on, and to encourage people to search for the knowledge and truth. If we assume that Moses and Al-Khader are characters in a dramatic dialogue and we want to apply Short's schema on that dialogue; we will notice