An Approach to Detached Letters

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Several chapters of the Qur'an begin with detached letters. Interpreters consider these letters as incomprehensible and as secrets between God and the holy Prophet (saw). Following a deliberation on these letters, the article enumerates four effects for their application in the Qur'an which include: meaning-seeking, providing spiritual humility, proclaiming facts which do not fall within discourse, and displaying semantic and psychological field of some words.