Abstract:
Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qardawi is considered as a prominent and great scholar of Islamic law and
literary studies in the world, he is extensively endowed with knowledge of the Holy Qur’an and
the traditions of the prophet, together with the studies of Arabic texts and literature, especially the
poetry of the classical and modern ears, all which would be confirmed by his vast delivery in
Islamic Studies, as he had numerous writings as an author and creative writer ability. It was
noticed that the Holy Qur’an had a great impact on those Al-Qardawi’s works, because he has
tasted the beauty of its eloquence and rhetoric right from his early ages and was affected by his
strength and potency since his youth. This paper therefore, aimed at looking into the effect of the
Qur’an in Al-Qardawi’s poetry. The objectives were to assess some of his poetic works that are
mainly contained adaptation of the Holy Qur’an; examine Al-Qardawi’s styles of extracting from
the Noble Qur’an; and analyse the rhetorical features of the poetry studied. Both historical and
descriptive were adopted in this study. Historical method was used in presentation of AlQardawi’s biography while the descriptive method was employed in analysing the adaptation and
the rhetorical features of the selected poetry. The findings of the paper include the facts that many
of Al-Qardawi’s works were influenced by the Qur’an via adaptation and this shows that he is
very conversant with recitation of Qur’an. Al-Qardawi was noticed to have fulfilled the
requirements of expression through appropriate use of elegant rhetorical features to maintain
clarity, uniqueness and beautification. The paper therefore, recommended that researchers should
lay more hands on his works for further studies in his other literary works.
