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This study explores the emotional landscape of the Qur’an through the lens of Plutchik's psychological model of emotions, which categorizes emotions into eight primary types: joy, sadness, trust, anticipation, surprise, disgust, anger, and fear. It identifies how various types of emotions are represented and utilized in different contexts. By applying a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the study demonstrates the Qur’an’s unique perspective on emotions, offering insights into its approach to emotional expression, regulation, and guidance. The analysis reveals that while Plutchik’s primary emotions are present in the Qur’an, their subcategories differ significantly, reflecting the Qur’an’s divine origin and guidance-oriented objectives. The findings highlight the Qur’an's distinctive emotional framework, which not only confirms but also extends beyond human-centered psychological models, reflecting its divine purpose and focus on holistic human development.

After the decline of positivism, the interpretive paradigm (structuralism) gained favor among Qur'anic scholars due to its emphasis on subjectivity, the role of values in cognition, attention to human interactions, and the interconnectedness of the knower and the knowable. However, despite the fact that this paradigm seems to be more compatible with the religious view than the positivist paradigm, there are still significant paradigmatic differences between it and the Islamic paradigm that need to be considered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges of using common qualitative methods in Qur'anic studies, while proposing the method of component analysis as a more appropriate approach. With the help of this method, it is possible to create a comprehensive set of verses that are related to and consistent with any concept of research in the field of humanities. The method consists of four stages: data collection, data coding, summarization, and searching for verses consistent with the extracted components.In this way, it can serve as a valuable tool for Qur'an scholars to overcome the challenges associated with the use of common qualitative methods, and it allows for a systematic and comprehensive approach that enables researchers to bridge the Holy Qur'an and the humanities, preparing the ground for interdisciplinary studies in these fields.

Due to the ambiguity, complexity, and context-sensitiveness of discourse markers, their presentation becomes more comprehensive in the process of translation. Additionally, Qur’anic discourse markers enjoy a special delicacy. This article thus investigated the translations of the Qur’anic elaborative discourse marker <em>wæ</em> in two Persian and English translations by Ali Maleki and Tahereh Saffarzadeh, respectively. To this end, 1475 examples of this discourse marker from six randomly selected ajzā of the Qur’an were analyzed using a descriptive and qualitative method. The results show that in numerous cases this discourse marker has not been translated literally but the translators have translated it communicatively, dynamically, and constructively by appealing to different linguistic procedures and by applying 118 different categories and combinations of various contrastive, inferential, temporal, and elaborative Persian and English discourse markers. The translators' approaches affirmed that translation is a dynamic and innovative discourse construction and structuration process influenced by the context of the natural processing of language in social contexts. It is so because of the versatility and dynamicity of interlocutors’ mental conditions and world knowledge as well as the situational circumstances that have bearings on the interpretation and application of meta-communicative elements by translators.

Since ancient times, human identification has been of paramount importance, and various methods have been employed to achieve this goal. Over time, advancements in science have mathematically and scientifically proven the uniqueness of fingerprints, making them the most common criterion used by identification systems today. The Qur’an, in many verses, addresses the concepts of the afterlife, the resurrection of the dead, and the accounting of human actions. A fundamental requirement for this accounting, whether for reward or punishment, is the accurate identification of individuals. In verses 3 and 4 of Surah al-Qīyāmah, God emphasizes the precision of human recreation, even down to the restoration of banān (often interpreted to mean fingertips). The primary objective of this research is to answer the question of whether the restoration of banān in the afterlife can be interpreted as the restoration of each individual's unique fingerprint. Employing a descriptive-analytical approach and an interdisciplinary perspective, this study examines the correlation between Qur’anic concepts regarding the restoration of banān and scientific findings in the field of biometrics, particularly fingerprints. Historical records indicate that fingerprints have long been of interest to humanity; however, the mathematical and empirical proof of their uniqueness was not established until the 17th century. The findings of this research suggest that by referring to the  restoration of  fingertips, the Qur’an has  drawn attention to a feature that, while its intricacies were apparent to people at the time of its revelation, was not fully understood in its unique nature. In other words, God has alluded to a unique feature whose complexity and difficulty of restoration were comprehensible to the people of that era but have, with scientific advancements, become the most common and accessible biometric method in the world today.

This study examined the translation of Quranic metaphors based on Mandelblit’s (1995) Cognitive Translation Hypothesis (CTH), including a metaphors translation model, summarized as three plans: (a) similar mapping conditions (SMC) with the same or similar wording in translation, (b) SMC but with different wording in translation, (c) and different mapping conditions (DMC). Forty-three Quranic metaphors and their translations by Saffarzadeh (2001) and Arberry (1955) were selected randomly and explored to see in what plan their CTH Quranic metaphors could be placed and how they translated them. Twenty-one metaphors turned out to be SMC and 22 were DMC. Twelve metaphors could be SMC and were rendered in similar wording, four could be SMC and rendered literally by both translators, three metaphors could be SMC and translated in similar wording by Saffarzadeh, three could be SMC and were translated literally by Arberry, and no SMC metaphor to be translated in different wording by either. Also, out of 22 DMC Quranic metaphors, 21 were rendered literally by both translators and one in different wording by both. It was concluded that SMC and DMC conceptual metaphors in Arabic-English conceptualization exist in the Quran, and similar conceptualizations facilitate metaphor translation, while differences can do the opposite.