Abstract

A stylistic analysis is one approach of analysing a literary text using literary descriptions. The use of literary texts in the literature classroom has been limited to mostly Western sources. This paper is an attempt to create an awareness of the linguistic features present in the English language translation of the meaning of the Quran by Muhammad Asad. One Meccan surah (chapter of the Quran) was selected from The Message of the Quran-the English translated version of the Quran by Muhammad Asad for a stylistic analysis. The Meccan surah is the seventy-seventh surah, Al-Mursalat. This surah proves to contain a rich variety of linguistic features which indicate that it can be an alternative source besides Western sources to be used as literary texts in the literature and language classroom.