Study of Anthropomorphism of God in the works of Sanaei and Attar from a Cognitive Point of View

Spiritual, sacred, and religious matters are things that human beings always have to use metaphors to understand. It is the property of the human mind that it cannot recognize conceptual and abstract matters without the help of instances of physics. Today, the cognitive sciences, including cognitive linguistics, have analyzed many of the metaphors used in human language and have shown how human beings understand the affairs of existence. The purpose of this study is to examine the human -based metaphor of God, in order to show with a cognitive approach how God has been conceptualized in the minds of two poets of the Persian language, namely Sanaei and Attar. For this purpose, in the books of these two poets, all the verses have been extracted in which human deeds and attributes have been mentioned to God and each of them has been mentioned in the article. The results of this study show that in the minds of these two poets, God is common: the king, the beloved, the craftsman, the host, the butler and the warrior, and in addition, in the Sanaei mind, God is: hairdresser, builder, baker, writer, leader; and in Attar's mind, God is the hunter, the juggler, the mirror worker, the commander, the weaver, and the painter. In this study, the face, waist, hair, lips, pupils, mouth, etc. are the organs that have been used along with evidence to prove the personification metaphor.