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               must  avoid  worldly  thoughts               later  on  or  also  to  ask
               and  the  scattering  of  the                for  ransom,  until  war
               mind”. (Makarem Shirazi et al,               lays  down  her  burdens.

               1995, Vol. 18: 39)                           Thus, shall you do-; yet
                  Also,  Kaviani  and  Panahi               if  God  so  wished,  He
               (2018)      by     stating    the            might  defend  Himself
               anthropological  foundations  of             from  them-in  order  that
               psychology from the perspective              some  of  you  may  be
               of  the  Qur'an  point  out  that            tested  by  means  of  one

               man  has  an  enemy  called  the             another.  The  ones  who
               havae  nafse  and  an  enemy                 have  been  killed  in
               called  the  devil;  Therefore,  the         God's  way  will  never
               main  approach  of  the  Qur'an  is          find  their  actions  have
               peace-oriented,  and  according              been  in  vain”.  (Qur'an,
               to  the  verses  of  the  Holy               47: 4)
               Quran,  about  half  of  the

               application  of  war  is  war  with   There is a conceptual metaphor
               the devil and the havae nafse.        when  it  is  said  war  lays  down
                                                     her  burdens.  Burdens  means
                   ➢  Analysis No. 10                heavy load. These heavy loads
                      “Whenever you encounter        are  an  metonymy  to  the  kinds
                      the  ones  who  disbelieve     of  “weapons”  and  “problems”

                      [during war], seize them       that  the  warriors  carry,  and
                      by their necks until once      face,  and  this  is  their  burden
                      you have subdued them,         until the war is over. (Makarem
                      then  tie  them  up  as        Shirazi et al, 1995, Vol. 21: 401)
                      prisoners,     either   in        Also,  heavy  war  loads  are
                      order  to  release  them       weapons  carried  by  warriors,
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