<![CDATA[This study examines the Qur’anic term taqnathu using Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic approach. The background of this research arises from contemporary social phenomena marked by increasing despair in facing life pressures, making it important to explore how the Qur’an responds to such attitudes. The position of this study emphasizes that taqnathu is not merely a linguistic term but a spiritual concept with theological and moral relevance. The analysis applies Izutsu’s four steps: identifying the keyword, exploring its basic meaning, analyzing relational meanings through syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations, and conducting synchronic and diachronic studies. The findings reveal that taqnathu carries the basic meaning of despair from goodness, with syntagmatic relations highlighting the prohibition of despair from Allah’s mercy, and paradigmatic relations showing its synonymity with other words denoting hopelessness and antonymity with words expressing optimism. The historical analysis demonstrates the development of meaning from pre-Qur’anic emotional notions, Qur’anic theological emphasis, to post-Qur’anic elaborations in classical tafsir. This study concludes that taqnathu represents a condemned spiritual condition indicating weakness of faith, while also showing the methodological contribution of Izutsu’s semantics in providing a holistic understanding of despair in the Qur’an.]]>
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