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you repent, you may usury is a war against the God
retain your principal. and the Messenger of the God,
Do not wrong [others] so war is allowed.
and you will not be
wronged”. (Qur'an, 2: 279) • Analysis No. 2
“The penalty for those
In this verse, the semantic who wage war on God
crash that characterizes and His messenger, and
metaphor is not found; So, spread havoc through
there is no conceptual metaphor the land, is to be
in this verse. slaughtered or crucified,
It points out that Harb is or have their hands and
indefinite and it conveys the feet cut off on opposite
greatness of that war or its sides, or to be banished
type: If he calls this war both a from the land. That will
war with God and a war with mean their disgrace in
the Messenger, it is because this world, while they
usury is opposition to God, will have serious torment
which has legislated its sanctity in the Hereafter”.
to be haram, and it is (Qur'an, 5: 33)
opposition to the Messenger of
God, peace be upon him, who In this verse the semantic crash
that characterizes metaphor is not
has preached God's command.
(Tabatabai, 1997, V. 2: 648) found, too. So, there is no
Therefore, the main conceptual metaphor in this verse.
approach of the Qur'an is This verse, in fact,
peace-oriented, and the God in completes the discussion about
this verse emphasizes that murder in the previous verses,
