The suspense in Surat Al-Kahf

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the phenomenon of suspense in Surat al-Kahf an aesthetic examination from a literary and narrative point of view, and inspired us the nature of the study to distribute the scientific material on a preface and two axes and results, as for the introduction, we summarized in it the talk about the concept of suspense in the field of narratives, the art of rhetoric, and in psychology, and we excluded the last concept of its distance from what our study is. After the introduction, the first axis came to detail the saying in the narrative techniques that ensure the production of suspense and work to strengthen it, as it was found in the teaser prologue, in the summary followed in detail, in concealing the secret, in surprise, in ambiguity, and in evoking the scene, As for the second axis, it explores in a timely manner the most prominent rhetorical methods that benefited the significance of suspense and colored the Qur’anic text with its character. In the two axes, the research sheds revealing light on the source and origin of the suspense, and interrogated the text in its rhetorical formation and narrative structure to reach the resulting meaning, and the study was concluded by recording the most important results that emerged from it in its humble effort.