The Features of Tactile Images in the Holy Quran; a case study of Initial one third of Quran

Sense is the first thing which helps the scholar to create technical images; because he elicits his images from different sources and then he synthesizes them to create his piece of literature; therefore modern literary criticism surveys the relation between technical images with five senses. Based on this credit, images were divided into seeing, hearing, taste, smell and touch. The meaning of touch image is all the images that get their material from things which are perceived through touching. In other words, they are images which demonstrate things like: heat, coldness, wet, dry, smoothness and concentration, etc. This study surveys the images related to five senses in the initial one third of the Holy Quran to reveal the hidden beauty of the verses and to discover the methods which is used in the Holy Quran to portray everything which is related to sense. This study has focused on the fact that how touch images made by using the declarative techniques have been expressed in the Quran. Besides, it has a passing reference to the actual images that portray touch evidence. The researcher, in this research, has applied descriptive and analytical methods.The most prominent results obtained are: a) most of touch images, particularly actual images, are intended to describe the fire which is provided by Great God for the opponents and pagans, b) most of declarative images which portray touch evidence are intended to demonstrate images which are perceptible and tangible in terms of concept and intentions to make them understandable for human’s mind and to place it in his heart, c) in its similes and metaphors, the Holy Quran has used perceptible things which human has faced in his environment and has perceived with his senses and at the same time has the most connection and closest association with the intended intentions, and d) most allusions which are somehow associated with touching have been used for things which hiding them is decent and uttering them is indecent.