The Term " Baṣīr" and its Homological Words in the Qur an The Semantic Study of the Term From the Constructive Viewpoint

The present study is a semantic research which aims to perform a scientific investigation of the relationships among the meanings extracted from different usages of one word in various places in the Qur’an and to identify the hidden meaning of the text. We have chosen the Constructive Approach of Semantics which focuses on the analysis of the semantic relation of the textual usage to describe the meaning. The Term which has been chosen for this study is “Baṣīr” used in the Qur’an in both definite and indefinite forms 51 times. Other derivatives of the term have various Quranic applications as well. Given the usages of the term in the Qur’an and after inspecting its Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic relations with other terms, we will try to identify the basic elements forming the meaning of “Baṣīr” in the Quran. As it will be indicated, the term “Baṣīr” (insightful) is used to refer to someone who has precise knowledge, proper cognition and is capable of distinguishingright from wrong and is bound to acting according to his inner beliefs. Such an insight is gained only through remembrance, reasoning, instructs, piety and certainty.