THE IMAGINED IMAGE IN SURAH AL-AHQAF AND ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the imaginative image in Surah Al-Ahqaf and its role in developing spiritual intelligence. Al-Ahqaf is the name of one of the surahs of the Holy Quran that introduces imaginative images with vocabulary and expressions motivating and exciting spirit. The imaginative images in Surah Al-Ahqaf have several and varied structures which contribute in developing spiritual intelligence, some of them are the imaginative images of the painful events flow into the soul, making you think beyond perception, and take imagination as a start point which has spiritual activity between the heart and mind, and consciousness and sub consciousness. The study presented several recommendations, the most important of which is employing imagination as a teaching and learning strategy in developing spiritual intelligence.