The Possibility of Defining Quranic Parables as Stories

The aim of Quran which has been sent to prophet by the Almighty Allah and whose invitation embraces all mankind is to ensure that people live a moral and faithful life with tawhid. Accordingly, Quran uses the different methods for transfering its message more efficiently. One of these methods is to tell the parable. In this regard, 1787 of Quranic verses have been consisted of parables. Parables in Quran include true events happened through the human history. Therefore, the issue of whether or not the Qur'anic parables can be defined by the concept of “story” that is about real, probable or unreal events is controversial. In this article, the aspects of the maintained discussion and the angles which should be approached in order to discuss the possibility of defining the Qur'anic parables with the concept of “story” are emphasized. In this context, it is supposed that approaching to the both concepts involved in 58 terms of semantics, source, theme, aim, form and style brings a decisive result