Metaphors of Money in the Holy Qur’an and Their Rhetorical Implications

Abstract

This study examines the metaphors of money used in the Qur'an and their rhetorical secrets, and the eloquence of their positions in the Quranic composition. The study traced all the places in which these metaphors were mentioned in the holy composition, in an attempt to reveal the precise connotations and deep meanings that were used to express them, to highlight and depict them, and to pinpoint the extent to which they enriched those contexts and the eloquent additions to them through a deep analysis of the linguistic structures that they contained. The study reveals through extrapolation and analysis that money in the Holy Qur’an was implied in unique syntactic and metaphorical formulations within important moral contexts that included Jihad, sedition, obliteration, proximity, buying, eating, excretion, immortality, destruction, and affliction.