Conceptualization of Doubt in the Qur’an; Cognitive field and lexical profiling

Profiling means building one or more concepts from among the concepts of a cognitive field and studying its relation to the cognitive field and other concepts of the same field. Concept of doubt often has been regarded in the cognitive field of knowledge by the epistemologists, linguists, logicians and commentators; but from the Qur’an viewpoint, doubt should be counted in the field of uncertainty which includes epistemological uncertainty and doctrinal uncertainty. Therefore the Qur’an uses the concept of doubt in two dimensions of epistemology and doctrine. Lexical profiling in the Qur’an shows thatat least in thirteen verses doubt belongs to the field of faith and only in two verses it could be related to the cognitive field of knowledge. Based on theory of lexical profiling, the Qur’an profiles doubt in doctrinal uncertainty. Studying the relation between doubt and its cognitive field it gets clear that the Qur’an regards doubt as lack of surrender caused by doctrinal uncertainty.