Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• ali alizadeh amoli ¹
• Bahaedin Eskandari ²
• Alireza Nabilou ³

¹ Faculty of Persian Language and Literature, University of Qom

² Associate Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Qom

³ Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature University of Qom

Abstract

Depicting and objectifying an abstract concept helps to understand it better; therefore, the theory of the unity of existence, which has been proposed by Muslim mystics with different interpretations, can be understood in the poems of poets in the form of different images.
An attempt is made to systematically analyze these images with a descriptive-analytical method, emphasizing the cognitive metaphors of the unity of existence. Rumi's quatrains are worthy of attention from this point of view because Rumi came to the understanding of the unity of existence through his spiritual journey and discovery and intuition, and to express this lofty concept, especially in the short quatrain poem, he inevitably created many images. Images that are the result of allegories and are presented in the form of similes and, cognitive/conceptual metaphors, and allegorical stories. In this research, it was found that the images of the unity of existence are related to one of the image clusters of light, water, wind, music, sweetness, spring, enchanter, and fire. It is possible to match the unity of existence (the abstract party/destination domain) with these sensations (the source/origin domain) and obtain macro-metaphors, each of which contains sub-metaphors

Keywords

• Cognitive Metaphor
• Unity
• Existence
• Rumis Quatrains

Main Subjects

• متون عرفانی