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amraei M. (2025). A comparative study of the metaphor of “mercy” in Nahjul Balaghah and Sahifa al-Sajjadiyyah according to Olaf Jekyll’s epistemological principles. JSAL. 8(1),
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Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Velayat University, Iranshahr, Iran , m.amraei53@gmail.com
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Cognitive linguistics, which emerged in the last two centuries, has provided good methods for examining texts and understanding them better. The metaphor in this approach is called conceptual metaphor. In conceptual metaphor, many concepts, especially abstract concepts, are organized through metaphorical adaptation of information and knowledge transfer, and a wide range of concepts with new expressions are available to the public. This article deals with the comparative study of the conceptual metaphor of “divine mercy” in Nahjul Balagha and Sahifah al-Sajjadiyya, employing the descriptive-analytical method based on the viewpoint of Lakoff and Johnson as well as the theoretical principles of Olaf Jekyll’s cognitive theory. There are similar metaphorical evidences of the metaphor of mercy in Nahjul Balagha and Sahifah al-Sajjadiyya, which is interesting. For example, in both books, God’s mercy is depicted as a precious possession stored in treasuries that God opens for the benefit of the servant in times of need and merit, or spiritual blessings such as sending messengers and the revelation of the Qur’an, which are depicted as rain falling on the servants, or in other words, God’s mercy is depicted as a vast vessel or space that the servant can enter or exit from. Both books, with the help of conceptual metaphors, opened the world of thought to humanity, and presented to humanity very complex concepts of obscure and abstract matters in simple and concrete language. In the evidence and proofs obtained in this research, the word “mercy” has been depicted in similar ways in both books, where the two Imams (a.s.) made their desired concepts comprehensible in the context of the tangibles using different areas of material, circumstantial, and personified metaphors including likening divine mercy to treasures, rain, a house, and a downpour that falls on the servants. Mercy also represents the vessel within which all the elements interact. Such metaphorical concepts of mercy in Nahjul Balagha and Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya are also found in the Holy Qur’an; it can be said that they were influenced by the Holy Qur’an in the field of the ontological metaphor of “mercy.”
Keywords: : The Holy Quran, Nahjul Balaghah, Safīha al-Sajjadīyya, conceptual metaphor, ontological metaphor, mercy.
Type of Study: Research |
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Linguistic research
Received: 2025/03/13 | Accepted: 2025/04/11 | Published: 2025/02/28
Received: 2025/03/13 | Accepted: 2025/04/11 | Published: 2025/02/28
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