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               86  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (28): 65-94, Autumn 2021

                 (
                   •  Analysis No. 11                of  war.  According  to  the
                      “The  Jews  say:  God's        Charteris-Black  criteria  for
                      hand  is  shackled.  May       distinguishing        conceptual
                      their  own  hands  be          metaphor, in terms of linguistic
                      shackled and themselves        criteria, they lit the fire of war
                      cursed  because  of  what      is reification; because “lighting
                      they  have  said!  Rather      the  fire”,  which  in  other
                      both  His  hands  are          contexts  refers  to  something

                      outstretched; He dispenses     objective and, for example, we
                      [things]  just  as  He         lit a fire to heat food, referring
                      wishes.  Anything  sent        to “war” which is abstract and
                      down  to  you  from  your      has created semantic crash.
                      Lord  increases  many  of         Cognitively, the understanding
                      them  in  arrogation  and      of the abstract concept of Harb
                      disbelief.    We     have      is  based  on  the  experienced

                      tossed hostility and hatred    situation; It means that we have
                      between     them      until    lit firewood in our lives; so, we
                      Resurrection Day. Every        have  organized  Harb  on  the
                      time  they  kindle  a  fire    basis  of  fire,  that  is,  to  better
                      for  war,  God  snuffs  it     understand  Harb.  Then  source
                      out.  They  rush  around       domain of fire has been used to

                      the     earth     creating     convey  the  meaning  of  target
                      havoc.  God  does  not         domain of war.
                      love  those  who  create          Also,  in  terms  of  pragmatic
                      havoc”. (Qur'an, 5: 64)        criteria  the  Jews  were  at  the
                                                     height of their power and ruled
               There is a conceptual metaphor        over  an  important  part  of  the

               when it is said they lit the fire
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