The Existence of Cursing and Swearing in the Qur’anic Discourse

Abstract

This research is part of a master’s thesis that addresses the issue of the existence of cursing and swearing in the Qur’anic discourse by presentation, analysis and weighting. Even though this issue is a Qur’anic question concerning the objective interpretation, it is also an ideological and religious faith question, which gave the subject another importance especially in the era of the emergence of many of the objectors to the Qur’anic discourse. The presence of a number of the Qur’anic verses that superficially suggest the meanings of cursing and swearing has caused the dispute between the exegetes and the scholars of the theological doctrines on the question of the presence of cursing and swearing in the Qur’anic discourse among the affirmatives and the deniers. In conclusion, the researcher found that there is no cursing and swearing in the Qur’anic discourse as there is no mention of cursing and swearing being added to The Almighty God neither in the Qur’an nor in the Sunnah.