EMOTIONAL PLOT IN THE QUR’ANIC HISTORICAL EVENTS AND ITS RESONANCE

Abstract

The research aims to examine the language of emotion, its uses in Qur’anic historical events and the emotional resonance of historical events which happened centuries ago in 7^th-century Arab society and 20^th-century sub-continent. Emotions hold a significant role in human life. For the last few decades, historians have turned their focus on the study of emotions to unlock a better understanding of the religious feelings. This work exclusively focuses on the historical events mentioned in the Qur’ān because the Qur’ān along with its holiness has abundant of historical events that provide with an understanding about religion and emotions. It also sheds light on the emotion of grief in historical events of the Qur’ān and its impact in different times. Historical events like the story of Hazarat Yusuf (A.S) which happened around 2000-2200 BC in Egypt, Prophet Hazarat Ayyub’s (A.S) story, famously known as Sabr-i-Ayub, around 1300-1500 B.C. in Syria when he felt ill and the pain and grief through the mother of Hazarat Moses (A.S), Hazarat Maryam (A.S) went when she lost his son in Egypt around 1200-1300 B.C. Moreover, it shows the element of grief to which Qur’ān acknowledges while discussing the struggle of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) i.e., the year of sorrow in the life of Prophet Muhammad when he lost his wife and uncle in 619CE. All these events in the Qur’ān are projected in a manner that they have a kind of emotional trajectory in them. The Qur’ān overall validates the emotional aspect of human. While reading these historical events, one can see the emotional pain of the main character to which the Qur’ān itself describes in the language of emotion while narrating these historical events.