What makes the Qur’an, or what makes the shortest chapter in the Qur’an inimitable?

To start, below is a summary of chapter al-Kawthar’s literary and linguistic features:

1. Unique Literary Form

2. Unique Linguistic Genre

3. Abundance of rhetorical devices/features:

- Emphasis

- Multiple Meaning

- Iltifaat – Grammatical shift

- Word order and Arrangement

- Ellipsis

- Conceptual Relatedness (Intertextuality)

- Intensification

- Choice of words & Particles

- Phonetics

- Semantically Orientated Repetition

- Intimacy

- Exaggeration

- Rebuke and contempt

- Conciseness

- Flexibility

- Prophesy/Factual

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