The sermon of the Messenger (may God bless him and his family) in welcoming the month of Ramadan A reading in the light of textual linguistics

Abstract

The sermon of the Messenger (may God bless him and his family) is

one of the great sermons in which phrases worthy of contemplation and reflection were mentioned, in a month whose name is linked to one of the names of God, as it was reported from Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) in a reliable chain of transmission: “Do not say this is Ramadan, nor Ramadan has gone, nor Ramadan has come, for Ramadan is a name of God Almighty, it does not come or go, but what comes and goes is the transient, but say the month of Ramadan, for the month is added to the name, and the name is the name of God (may His mention be glorified), and it is the month in which the Qur’an was revealed, making it an example and a threat, and therefore it deserved to be re-read and analyzed by observing the semantic relationships between sentences in particular, and between groups of sentences and their grammatical characteristics in a general way, so the choice fell on employing textual linguistics in this reading, and it was necessary to intertwine practices and evoke several references that control it: (the type of discourse, its producer, and its recipient) in order to understand and analyze the sermon, by subjecting it to the seven textual criteria proposed by De Beaugrand in discourse analysis, which are: (casting, weaving, Purposefulness, acceptability, information, situational, intertextuality).