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Introduction bridge for deep understanding
In the cognitive sense, and encouraging the
metaphor is an organized audience to think and
mapping from the source achieve the thought hidden
domain to the target domain. in the verses of the Quran,
Lakoff and Johnson (1980) so by understanding the
believe that metaphor metaphorical verses of the
covers the whole of daily Quran, we can reach the
life, not only in the field of abstract concepts and the
language; but also in the ideas behind them, and also
field of thought and action it helps resolve the
and our conceptual system ambiguities in some
has a metaphorical nature. Quranic translation and
On the other hand, the interpretations too.
field of religion and For example, in Quran,
religious discourse cannot in the Tafsir al-Mizan and
be clearly understood due in Tafsir Ethna Ashari,
to having abstract and there is ambiguity that
unexperienced concepts. “Enter it in peace…” is to
Metaphor is a way to enter safely or it means to
understand abstract, intangible enter while Allah and the
and unusual concepts through angels greet you. (Ref:
concrete, tangible and Quran, 50:34; Tabatabai,
material concepts and in 1995, Vol. 18: 531; Shah-
the conceptual metaphors Abdul-Azimi, 1984, Vol. 12:
of the Quran, language 238)
mechanisms are like a
