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world at that time and with the disbelievers start a fire of war
advent of Islam, their power for the Muslims,the God will
diminished, and eventually the extinguish that fire.
Prophet's struggle against the Therefore, the main
Jews of Bani al-Nadhir, Bani approach of the Qur'an is
Qurayzah, and the Jews of peace-oriented and according
Khyber weakened them to the verses of the Holy Quran
completely, and so they began to If the infidels start a war
ridicule and mention Infidel against the Muslims, God will
words. (Makarem Shirazi et al, extinguish the fire of that war
1995, Vol. 4: 449) and bring their sedition back to
In this verse, “war is fire” is themselves.
a conceptual metaphor that After examining and finding
according to Lakoff and 1 conceptual metaphor in
Johnson's theoretical framework source domain of fire, its
is a structural conceptual conceptual key was deduced
metaphor; based on which one and its hierarchical structure
concept is understood based on was drawn.
another concept.
In explaining this conceptual
metaphor in verse 64 of Surah
Ma'idah it is clear that if the
