Cognitive Assessment of Heart's Metaphors in Mersad-ol-Ebad (The Path of God's Bondsman)

In this paper the conceptual metaphors with the core of Heart in Mersad-ol-Ebad are explored, in order to clarify the way Najm al-Din Razi as the author of one of the Persian proses work in the history of mystical prose in terms of the key concept. For this purpose, after the extraction of linguistic metaphors, a report is presented about the metaphors of the heart, then the discovery of conceptual metaphors is carried out, and after processing and analyzing them, it is finally concluded that the mysterious metaphors come from three main metaphors: "heart as substance", "heart as place" and "heart as human". Cognition levels and understanding of Sheikh's thought is based on conceptualizing "heart as place". The abundance of the territory of the origin of the place is due to the fact that all the people enter the heart of the seeker. The greater choice of territories that somehow interact with the court and the king expresses the court's perspective and his dependence on the courts. Also, selecting of more metaphors for visualizing of "heart" is based on his Quranic and religious insight. His intuitive Mysticism and special Sufism, meaning the combination of love and worship, has been influential in his metaphors.