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• Analysis No. 3 Cognitively, the understanding
“Who is more unjust of the abstract concept of
than one who creates Islam is based on the
falsehood against Allah experienced situation. It
when he has already means that for example we
been invited to Islam? are familiar with religion in
Allah does not guide the normal life, so Islam is
unjust people”. (Quran, 61:7) organized based on
religion. That is, for a
There is a conceptual better understanding of the
metaphor when it is said target domain of Islam, the
“invited to Islam”. source domain of religion
According to the Charteris- has been used to convey the
Black criteria for concept.
distinguishing conceptual Also, in terms of
metaphor, in terms of pragmatic criteria, Despite
linguistic criteria, invited to the good news of the
Islam is personification; Messiah about the
because “being invited” appearance of the Prophet
which refers to something of Islam, and despite the
concrete in other contexts, fact that the call of the
such as being invited to a Prophet of Islam was
birthday party, refers to accompanied by “visions”
“Islam” which is abstract and clear proofs and
and has created semantic miracles, a stubborn and
tension.
opposites group stood up
and denied, and in this
