(As) situational narrative and commenting by saying in the Holy Quran

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The scope of this research is to study the narrative circumstantial (إذ) and its relationship with quotations in the Holy Quran. This study has exhaustively covered the narrative circumstantial (إذ) in the holy Quran where it was mentioned 76 times.
In addition, this phenomenon has created 7 styles and 20 forms. The resulting quotations varied between a nominal sentence and a verb sentence. However the call sentence –which is considered a verb sentence-, had the best share since the Holy Quran’s narrative dialogue in its entirety is between Allah and his prophets or between a prophet and his people or between Luqman and his son.

And based on this feature, it appeared that the narrative circumstantial (إذ) is specific since it is an acting adverb and is missing two sentences (three and four sentences in some cases). That is mainly because it is contextually coupled with the verb (قال) which consequently produced this sentence, whether it is a quotation or a subsequent sentence in the context of Allah’s saying (وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلاَئِکَةِ اسْجُدُواْ لآدَمَ فَسَجَدُواْ إِلاَّ إِبْلِیسَ أَبَى وَاسْتَکْبَرَ وَکَانَ مِنَ الْکَافِرِینَ) Bakarah 34

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