[AR] al-Itlaq wa al-Taqyid fi Tahlil al-Nusus al-Diniyyah: Surah al-A'la Namuzajan

Gratis and Gratuitous in Analyzing Religious Texts: Surah al-A’la as Case Study

Abstract

This article is an applied and scholar exhibition study of gratis and gratuitous articles in Islamic  religious texts. It intends to certify the influence of these two mechanisms in finding the hidden meanings from the text, and to proclaim which one is common in usage. The researcher followed descriptive and analytical methods in this article. The article consists of lexical and technical meaning of the terms, the main gratuitous articles and a case study of gratis and gratuitous in one of the Quranic chapters (Surah al-A’la). The result shows that gratuitous is more common in use than gratis, this is essential for explicitly and clearance of the text contents. It also restricts receiver autonomy to check ambiguity and misunderstanding.