Abstract
Qasr, meaning the attribution of one thing to another and its negation of the other, plays a prominent role in understanding and interpreting the text as the strongest method of emphasis. This pivotal position, especially in the analysis of religious texts such as the Holy Quran, has caused rhetoric scholars to pay special attention to this rhetorical method and to present several divisions for it in traditional rhetoric; however, by carefully examining the verses containing the qasr, especially the corresponding verses, and paying attention to the fundamental point that God Almighty sometimes expresses the qasr as absolute and sometimes as restricted, depending on the context of the word, it becomes clear that the traditional divisions of the qasr, which mainly focus on the semantic relationships between its elements, cannot explain all aspects of this phenomenon, and the application or restriction on the sides of the qasr; especially the qasr, causes the emergence of new rhetorical features in the structure of the qasr and reveals new layers of the eloquence and rhetoric of the Quran. The present study, by adopting a descriptive-analytical method and through the systematic extraction of verses corresponding to Qasr and by analyzing the role of "atlaq" and "taqiyid" in "maqsoor al-'ali" in verses of the Holy Quran, especially the corresponding verses containing Qasr, shows that paying attention to the absolute or restricted nature of the maqsoor al-'ali not only plays a fundamental role in a more accurate interpretation of the verses; but also provides a basis for presenting a new division of Qasr that had been neglected in traditional rhetoric. Based on these findings, Qasr is divided into four main types based on the application and restriction of the deficient subject: absolute, restricted, compound, and multiple. The diversity in individuals and the type of restriction of the deficient subject can provide simpler or more complex concepts of the conceptualizatio