A Comparative Study of Addressing Forms in Qur'an and Nahj Al-Balaghah

Style is how the speaker or writer expresses his thoughts and feelings. The style of expressing intentions impacts the audience in accepting or rejecting the presented content. The purpose of the present research is to answer the question of what are the addressing forms and their application in the Qur'an and Nahjal-Balaghah? What are their features and advantages? To answer these questions, authors using a descriptive-analytic method, divided the Qur'an and Nahj al-Balaghah addresses based on the combined form. Then, authors studied some examples of rhetorical purposes to identify the characteristics and advantages of these styles. The findings show that the composition style in the Quran and the declarative style in the sermons of Nahj Al-Balaghah are frequently present. The secondary meaning prevails in all these styles except the declarative style. The use of these styles in the secondary sense, from the psychological point of view, has a significant impact on the audience, so both texts have made good use of the styles in explaining the divine teachings, guiding and educating the audience. Identifying these meanings depends on paying attention to the connected and disconnected clues of the text, so without paying attention to these styles and their virtual purposes, the understanding of the Qur'an and Nahj al-Balaghah's texts is impaired.