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223The long standing objections leveled against the Quran by critics is how it appears to have a structural unity and lacks anything of the kind of orderly arrangement Arguments include that it is riddled with unsettling shifts of scene location subject and is filled with unpredictability which results in conclusion that the Quran is just a remarkable compilation of unrelated passages at best I will attempt to analyze several of the Quranic verses based on our assigned readings with linguistic stylistics and analyzing the recurring themes throughout the surah to prove that there exists a stylistic unity in the Quran In this analysis I will focus on the Quranic surah The Dawn 89 In this surah the contents show that it was revealed at the beginning phase of persecution of the new converts to Islam had begun in Mecca The people of Mecca have been warned of cataclysmic end of the great tribes of Ad and Thamud and of the Pharaohs kingdom Its theme is to uphold the allocation of rewards and retribution in the afterlife the presence of an omnipotent God and a critique to the general ethical state of mankind In the first verse the oaths may generally imply that the alternation of the day and night cycles in the sense that the dates of the month go on altering from the 1st to the 2nd and from 2nd to the 3rd and so on then every alteration brings with it something new This of course can be a clear interpretation of a symbol of regularity that exists in the night and day cycle and swearing oaths by these raises the question for mankind
Thus the criterion of honor and humiliation in his sight is the possession of wealth and position and power or the absence of it whereas the actual truth which he does not understand is that whatever God has given anybody in the world has been given for the sake of a trial Again we are able to go back and correlate the two themes with the thematic approach of an all powerful creator Which once again appears in the verse after 89 20 24 the line When the lord and the angels approach rank on rank arrayed 89 22 can be interpreted as an allegorical expression which is meant to give an idea that at that time the manifestations of Gods immense majesty and sovereignty will appear entirely as for example in the world the arrival of a king in person in the court is more awe inspiring than the mere array of his forces and chiefs and nobles The importance of the stylistic unity in theme of this specific surah is of course directly correlated with one of the pillars Islam which is the affirmation and oneness of God and refers to the interior unity of an omnipotent being all seeing hearing knowing and willing