The Rhetorical Image of Surat Al-Qalam

Abstract

    The pen, whose value has been magnified by God’s oath to it, is the vehicle of thought, the tool of knowledge, and the transmitter of knowledge. With it, the nation can spread its call, disseminate its creed, and announce its approach to life, its view of creation and the Creator, and its vision of the beginning and destiny. In the oath to the pen, there is what indicates the intellectual civilizational role that awaits this nation. With the heads of these pens, the call of Islam reached the lands of the Romans, the Persians, the Mamluks of Yemen, and the Abyssinians, the pens of Islam reached it before its swords and spears did, and with the tips of the pens the heritage of the nation was preserved, and the Qur’ans, the collections of the Sunnah, and the codes of jurisprudence and language were written.

With it, history and literature were preserved, with the pens of Muslims, the movement of the ages of the Household of the Prophet and the source of the message was recorded with all precision and skill. So if you read what the pens wrote, it is as if you are living with the people and hearing their conversation. As long as the pen of the Muslim writes in the name of his Lord who created him, then the word he writes is his word, its root is firm and its branch is in the sky, bearing its fruit at all times with the permission of its Lord. As long as the pen of the Muslims writes in the name of its Lord, no doubt will arise about Islam, and ignorance or blindness will not prevail over the Muslims, therefore, the Muslim pen is a legitimate sword in the arena of intellectual jihad. The value of the pen in the Islamic concept and the Qur’anic discourse lies in the bright, enlightened and radiant thought it writes, and in what it writes with letters of light, which teach people and remove the darkness of ignorance from them, and expose falsehood. Thus, the texts written by the pen and the ideas it makes understand are like a proof that is extremely powerful in its effect and impact on readers. This only happens when the writer intends with everything he writes the face of God, His fear and the afterlife, so he seeks in everything he writes or inscribes with his pen pure intention, honesty, truth and justice. Then his article rises to a high level that makes its writer worthy of acceptance by the general public and the reward of the mujahid with the Almighty, the Majestic.