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76 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (30): 51-89, Spring 2022
Whether the proposed Religious Language as an
solutions to this problem are Analogous Language
successful is not the The Beloved is all and
discussion point of this paper. the lover (but) a veil;
The point, however, is that in the Beloved is living
this verse Rumi asserts that and the lover a dead
God’s knowledge includes thing. (Rumi, 2013, 30,
knowing everything, even the Vol. 1)
details of events of the
material world. This verse refers to verse
This poem refers to the (Ayah) of the Holy Quran
following verse from the that “Everything will be
Holy Quran: destroyed except His Face”,
“And with him are the (Quran, 28: 88) and other
keys of the unseen; verses that say:
none knows them “Everyone upon the
except Him. And he earth will perish, and
knows what is on the they will remain the
land and in the sea. Face of your Lord,
Not a leaf falls but that Owner of Majesty and
He knows it.” (Quran, Honor”. (Quran, 55:
26-27)
6: 59)
So, Rumi has repeated the Such verses that are very
apparent meaning of the āyah common in “Masnavi”, at first
in his poems. glance, do not seem to be
compatible with the analogous
theory of religious language.
