Explaining the Relationship between Human and Universe Based on Paradigmatic Relations in the Symbolic Language of the Qur'an

As a literary book, Qur'an is a text that consists of many contiguous layers of meaning which donate unity of meaning, while abounding with words. So it is substantial to reach this domain of meaning unity, yet deep meaning layers. Symbol as an indicator of celestial matter descended to man from higher worlds, is represented in words to conjoin man with the celestial meanings. Accordingly, semantic paradigmatic in the sense of conceptual replacement on another concept under similar conditions can be the first key to the discovery of symbols in the text, which is the same as the metaphor in the next stage. The Holy Qur'an, by establishing the correspondence between the existence of man and the components of the universe, accompanies his audience with the changes, features, and states of the components of the universe and depicts his path to growth and excellence in harmony with the components of the universe. In this research we analyze the relationship between man and the universe. This correspondence results from the creation of a substitute relationship between man and the universe and, in some cases, other components of the universe.