A Grammatical Study of the Omission of Signification Letters/particles in the Chapter of "'Amma” of the Holy Qur’an

Abstract

This paper discusses the general omission of signification letters/particles in Arabic grammar and discusses particularly the statistical application of this omission in the chapter of ‘Amma in the Holy Quran. The study is divided into two sections: The first section deals with the linguistic and technical meaning of the omission of the signification letters. The first section is divided into three subsections. The first discusses omission in Arabic grammar in general. The second discusses the signification letters. The third discusses the omission of signification letters. Each of these subsections discusses the linguistic and technical aspects of the omission. The second section discusses the applied statistical grammatical study on the omission of the signification letters in the chapter of 'Amma in the Holy Quran. This section is further divided into five subsections: the first concerns the omission of the prepositions; the second concerns the omission of the interrogative particle Hamza; the third concerns the omission of the emphatic particle Qad (“قد ”); the fourth concerns is the omission of Laam of oath which strengthens the complement of an oath; and the fifth concerns the omission of the conjunction "waaw" ("و"). The researcher concludes with the results of the study and includes a detailed index of the references he used.