Peirce's Sign Model Of The Glorious Quran

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Peirce (1931-1958) defines the sign (in the form of a representamen). This representamen or representative actuates and functions according to Peirce as a tool or something used in the representation of something else to somebody in some respect or capacity. Thus, it is not actually represent that think or its object directly or verbatimly and it lacks the liability to present or add extra knowledge of that thing or its object to somebody by itself. It rather addresses a recipient via creating or initiating equivalent sign in to his mind. This sign is the intepretant of the first sign that stands for its object in a referential relation.

Nőth (1990) (cited in Chandler (2007, p.34) re- produced the Peirce's sign model
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Positive Emotions
This type expresses the positive emotions of the happy people in the Hereafter. In this type of the facial expressions, five forms of positive meanings and emotions in relation to the happy people in the Hereafter are discussed and analyzed below.
White Faces
The whiteness of faces is expressed in the Glorious Quran with reference to the following verses:
Example 1: يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌ فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ اسْوَدَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ أَكَفَرْتُمْ بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْ فَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ (106) وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ ابْيَضَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ فَفِي رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ (107) ( ال عمران: 107-106)
On the Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) when some faces will become white and some faces will become black; as for those whose faces will become black (to them will be said): "Did you reject Faith after accepting it? Then taste the torment (in Hell) for rejecting Faith." And for those whose faces will become white, they will be in Allah's Mercy (Paradise), therein they shall dwell forever. (Family of Imran:

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