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praying in the shrine:" mehrab is repeated once in the
God gives you news of Holy Qur'an, which seems to
John, who will confirm be very meaningful.
word from God, masterful The literal meaning of
yet circumspect, and a maharib means “place of
prophet [chosen] from worship” or “palaces and large
among honorable people”. buildings” that are built for the
(Qur'an, 3: 39) purpose of the temple, and also
➢ “They worked away for sometimes refers to the top of
him just as he wished on the house, or the top of the
shrines and images, bowls mosque and the temple. Also, it
as big as troughs and is the place of the Imam of the
built-in cauldrons:" Give congregation, which is a new
thanks, O House of David!" interpretation and meaning that
Yet few of My servants has been taken from the root of
are grateful”. (Qur'an, Harb meaning war. (Makarem
34: 13) Shirazi et al, 1995, Vol. 18: 38-39)
In the “Tafsir Nemooneh”,
In these verses the semantic
crash that characterizes the reason for naming the
metaphor is not found, too. So, temples as mehrab is considered
there is no conceptual to be that “the place of battle
metaphor in this verse. and war with the devil and
Of the 11 key words Harb in havae nafse”- Man's inner war
the Holy Quran, 5 are related to with himself- or Harb means
mehrab including Ahmehraba 2 “clothes that are taken from
times, Almehrabe 2 times and the enemy on the battlefield;
Ahmaharib the plural of because man in the temple
