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The Nature of Religious Language… M. Mousavi Karimi and H. Tehrani Haeri / (55
nature of religious language categorize such poems under
will be briefly explained. Then, two or three theories.
some paradigm examples of It seems that by examining
“Masnavi” in which Rumi Rumi’s view as a paradigm
has expressed his views about example of a famous mystic,
religious language, will be and on the basis of new
interpreted. (Ref: Foruzanfar, 1982; theories, the dominant view
Dargahi, 1991; Khoramshahi of mystics, as one of the main
and Mokhtari, 2005) four groups of Muslim scholars
Finally, it will be shown how (other than philosophers,
Rumi’s poems in “Masnavi” theologians and jurists), can
can be categorized under be shown.
such theories. It is worth mentioning that
In other words, the outcome in addition to ayat, Rumi has
of this paper is to show the interpreted many traditions
weight of each theory of (hadiths) in his poems too. In
religious language from Rumi’s this paper, however, only those
point of view; that is, to poems have been examined
determine which theory has which merely deals with the
the highest and which has the semantic and the referential
lowest position in “Masnavi”. aspects of ayat.
It should be noticed that,
regarding a vague and multilayer The Main Theories of
use of language in some of Religious Language
Rumi’s poems, and also the In terms of analyzing religious
overlapping of some theories language, philosophers of religion
with each other, we have to can generally be divided into
two groups:
