Manifestations of the guidance of Imam Mahdi ... in the light of interpretative traditions relying on the conceptual metaphor of "light"

One of the most effective things in human life and destiny is"Knowledge of the Imam" especially the Imam of any time.Therefore, under many verses, Infallible Imam  explained their characteristics and position in different ways. One of these methods is the metaphorical expression of interpretive narrations about imams, including Imam Mahdi. In the realm of semantics, the conceptual metaphor of light and its functions (sun, day, moon, star, constellation, door star, meteorite)for the Prophet, by transferring tangible spaces to unfamiliar spaces, opens new windows of knowledge about the Imam of the age in human vision.The present research, with the same approach,after examining more than350 verses and interpretative narrations under them and extracting and categorizing conceptual metaphors,with descriptive-analytical method, has opened various windows of the description of the Prophet's guidance, which has been the focus of attention in many metaphors, until the dimensions clarify and conceptualize it, dimensions such as: being divine, inherent and permanent, inability to deny the presence of the Prophet, surrounding all objects, extension of the cause of connection between God and creation, all perfections leading to the Prophet, Formative and legislative, comprehensive and ultimate leadership, paving a quick and easy path for the Taliban to lead, ending the darkness and removing the darkness and anxieties and dispersions, preserving and surviving the religion, creating life, growth, hope, security, unity, etc. This depiction of the guidance of Imam Mahdi opens the way and custom of life for the aspirants of the light of her guidance to find happiness in this world and the hereafter by following the shining sun of her existence.