The Philosophy of God’s Oath as Written in Koran

Koran as the holy book of Islamic society derives divine revelation handed on to prophet
Mohammad and as the last holy book, it is functioned as a guidance and the way of life to achieve the
happiness on Earth and the afterlife. The guidance aswritten in Koran probably not easy to except by
close-hearted people caused by the crime so that they need a support to receive the guidance especially
throughout the oath. Goduses the oath (muqsambih)as written in Koran following God‟s willing. This research is
library research. Due to the research objective, the resource of main data is the book of Tafsir alQur’an. Data is also compiled by the books related to study of Koranandits interpretation, and other
books linked to research object. The data analysis used is the content analysis.In accordance with
research result, the philosophy of God‟s oath in Koran is to affirm the truth of Koran, and to
enhance the utterance so that listeners can believe and trust the truth. God usingsomet things as
God‟s oathsare intended humankinds pay much intention to the greatness of God throughout his
creations. Therefore, humankinds perceive the ir lower position in front of God and glorify the
traits of God and the power of God.