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The Nature of Religious Language… M. Mousavi Karimi and H. Tehrani Haeri / (67
Religious Language as a he not been among
Symbolic Language those who glorify. He
➢ Thy Jonah has been would have tarried in
cooked in the fish’s its belly till the Day
belly: for his deliverance they are resurrected.”
there is no means but (Quran, 37: 142-144)
glorification of God. Similar verses can be found
(Rumi, 2013, 3135, Vol. 2) in the “Bible”:
➢ He had not glorified “Now the Lord had
(God), the fish’s belly prepared a great fish
would have been his to swallow up Jonah.
jail and prison until And Jonah was in the
they shall be raised belly of the fish three
(from the dead). (Ibid, days and three nights”.
3136, Vol. 2) (Bible, The Old Testament,
➢ Through glorification Jonah: 17)
he escaped from the
body of the fish. What In the next poem, Rumi
is glorification? The sees the three elements of the
sign (and token) of the verses, i.e., sea, fish, and
Day of Alast. (Ibid, Jonah as the symbols of
3137, Vol. 2) something else:
This world is a sea,
These poems refer to some and the body a fish,
verses of the Quran: and the spirit is the
“Then the fish swallowed Jonah debarred from
him, for he was
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blameworthy. And had
