Phonetic Miracles in the Scenes of Magic in the Qur’anic Story of Prophet Moses: An Analytical Study

Abstract

This study examines the scenes of magic in the Qur’anic story of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) from a phonetic perspective, focusing on sounds and syllables. The scenes under investigation are distributed across four Surahs: Al-A‘raf, Yunus, Ta-Ha, and Ash-Shu‘ara’. The aim of the study is to uncover the phonetic dimensions of the Qur’anic text—dimensions that contribute to the construction of its semantic and psychological impact. The research adopts a linguistic-phonetic analysis method, recording and analyzing the frequency and qualities of sounds, including voicing and voicelessness, plosives, fricatives, and liquids, and highlighting their influence on the phonetic context. It also includes counting syllables and identifying the reasons behind the dominance of certain syllable types over others, as well as the effect of such prevalence on the phonetic structure and rhythm within the scenes. The study concludes that the phonetic structure in these magic scenes works alongside other linguistic components to realize meaning in a way that achieves both psychological and aesthetic impact—reflecting the profound depth of the Qur’an’s phonetic miracle.