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The Nature of Religious Language… M. Mousavi Karimi and H. Tehrani Haeri / (81
In all these verses the word The first point is that Rumi
“light” has been used accepts neither the positivists’
analogously between God idea of meaninglessness of
and different creatures. religious language nor the
later Wittgenstein’s view of
language game. Moreover, there
Data Evaluation and Analysis is no sign in “Masnavi” that
By investigating all poems of shows his sympathy with the
“Masnavi”, 369 verses were idea of religious language as
found wherein Rumi has a mythical language. The other
somehow pointed to the four theories, however, somehow
Quran’s Verses (Ayat) and exist in “Masnavi”.
interpreted them semantically. Considering the characteristics
Examining these verses shows of these theories, it can be
that they can be categorized asked, is it not the case that
under the titles of four theses Rumi’s view is paradoxical?
as shown in the following In other words, since the
table: theories are not compatible
Thesis Number with each other, how has
of Verses
Symbolic Language 103 Rumi somehow employed all
Equivocal Language 85 of them in his interpretations
Univocal Language 88 of the verses of the Quran?
Analogous Language 93 Doesn’t this illustrate that
Rumi have had a vague and
Now, considering this table, unclear idea about religious
let us examine Rumi’s view language?
about the language of Quran.
