A Survey of Manifestations of Artistic Illustration in the Blessed Surah of Taaha with an Emphasis on Allegory, Metaphor and Imagery

The Holy Quran is a unique and unrepeatable masterpiece which has been under the care of researchers because of consisting magnificent meaning which in an unparalleled construction is available for everyone. All of the meanings of this Sacred Book are at the peak of fluency and eloquence, and one of its embellishment methods is artistic illustration for every event and hereby the addressee reaches to a better understanding and comprehension of the massage of The Quran. So it is necessary to study the Illustration of Quranic contents and explain the ways of applying these illustrations in instillation of its steering meanings. The present research with a descriptive-analytic approach intends to investigate, after explaining the general meaning of illustration and the characters of Quranic illustrations, the expressional modus operandy of artistic illustrations and structural elements in Surah Taaha as a one of instruments of describing human and moral doctrines. The results of our inquiry will show that the most eminent of constituents of the illustrations in this Surah consist of allegory, metaphor and imagery. The Holy Quran also makes the pure abstract meanings concrete by conceptual depicting so that they get more clarity in the mind of addressee and consequently his mutual reaction with the Holy Text becomes better and concrete. It must be mentioned that, in this direction. The Holy Quran doesn’t rely only on a specific kind of depicting but also uses different and various kinds of pictures which in the same context are in mutual reaction.