The Relationship Between Singular, Dual and Plural in The Holy Quran Descriptive Study

Abstract

In the holy Qur’an, we find several different discourses in the Qur’anic verses, and we have examined them through six sections in which we have mentioned all the various discourses between the singular, the duel and the plural, as a speech from God almighty came in the singular and meant the dual or the plural and or plural and dual which meant the singular. We noticed that in these verses there is also the diversity in the direction of speeches. One time we find them addressed to the prophets (upon them be the best of prayers and peace). Sometimes they are directed to the prophets (peace be upon them), while sometimes they are directed to the believers and infidels, or verses to indicate a state, position or a legal ruling, such as praying or the attributes of Muslims, or fear and escape, or how man and jinn were created. The study tried to present the justifications of the grammarians and their interpretation of the Qur’anic verses that contain numerical irregularities - between the singular, the duality, and the plural in number, person, and gender - and highlight their differences in justifying the phenomenon and their interpretations to break out of conformity, whether these justifications rooting from the linguistic context, or non-linguistic and belong to the external context aspects which depends on the circumstances of the text and its relevance, from hadiths interpreting the text or linking the text to the external reality of events, or Islamic rulings. The research aims at clarifying the motives behind these justifications and the logic that controls them, and link them to recent studies and comparative studies in particular.