Imagery of Metaphor in Qur’anic Prayers

Metaphor is an expressional and explicative art in which two different expressions juxtapose with each other that result in unity (identity) of opposites. This expressive style represents a new interpretation from two different things that reader or listener cannot feel it by its actual use and we can see a lot of these artistic expressions in Qur’an. The author of this paper tries to evaluate the elegances of metaphor in Qur’anic prayers. Initially, the writer defines metaphor and evaluated the causes of its excellence over simile; then, paper is divided into two sections namely, extended and implicit metaphors. In each section, the metaphors that are used in Qur’anic prayers are extracted and then we discuss their aesthetics effects. The thing that can be resulted at the end is that, the most important aesthetics aspects of metaphors in Qur’anic prayers are: 1- hyperbole; 2- observance of order and congruence in Ayahs and composing a kind of music in discourse in such a way that speech losses its monotony; 3- Personification (characterization in inanimate objects); 4- admiring appearance and the meaning of word. The thing that is important among all of the Qur’anic Ayahs is the issue of the Ayahs’ style and texture, in such a way that without considering it we cannot get the meaning and concept of the metaphor. The writer of this paper proposes an analysis of all of the Qur’anic metaphors using inductive and descriptive method to get a better and more tangible result.