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The Meccan Surah al-Ghāshīyah in the Qur’an, with its cohesive structure, constructs a multi-layered discourse through descriptions of the Day of Judgment, invitations to reflect on creation, and an emphasis on the Prophet’s guiding role, promoting monotheistic faith and challenging the polytheistic hegemony of Mecca. This study examines how the surah represents theological concepts such as monotheism, resurrection, human responsibility, and social concepts including justice, faithful identity, and a critique of polytheism, while confronting the power structures of the Quraysh. Utilizing Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis framework, which views language as a social practice for reproducing or transforming power relations, the study is conducted at three levels: textual, discursive process, and social practice. Findings indicate that the surah employs contrastive vocabulary, concise grammatical structures, and rhetorical devices such as antithesis, repetition, and rhetorical questions to represent the dichotomy between faith and disbelief. These tools, by reinforcing the process of othering, promote faithful identity as a legitimate and ethical alternative, undermining polytheistic hegemony. The surah also proposes a social order based on justice and spiritual equality through intertextuality and the integration of warning, argumentative, and persuasive discourses. This analysis elucidates the role of religious texts in social transformations and contributes to a deeper understanding of the interplay between language and power in the historical context of Mecca.

Human happiness is one of important philosophical and theological discussions among thinkers and is the goal of every man who seeks it consciously or not, and explains and identifies it according to his view. Thinkers have not treaded the same course in their understanding of happiness. Some have perceived it to be material pleasures, some spiritual-intellectual and some a combination of the two. Allama Tabataba'i has defined happiness of everything as its attainment to its existential good thereby enjoying it. He has defined happiness for humankind as Divine proximity and approximating the Absolute Reality, and has defined the human ultimate perfection as "wilaya". He considers faith to be of the type of knowledge and practical observance, and highlights it in attainment to happiness. This study, by a descriptive-analytic method, led to the conclusion that happiness in Allama Tabatabaei's view consists in "Divine proximity" and attainment to "wilaya", the nearset way to reach this position is soul knowledge and faith is the most important element in realization of human happiness.