Metaphor in the Mystical Language of Mibodi

So far, metaphors have been talked about just in poetry. This study tries to find out that how the mystic, Abdolfazl Rashidoldin Mibodi has used metaphors in his mystical prose, in the third section of the interpretation of kashfoulasrar to convey his determined connotations. To clarify the argument, its functions have been defined in two different levels, namely recognition and aestheticism. The functions of the recognition metaphors in Mibodi’s mystical prose are: giving an intuitive and imaginative soul to the vague and segregated meanings, making the unknown meanings and phenomena recognizable, creating meanings or semi-meanings, clarification of the segregated meanings, giving life to meanings and phenomena, convincing the addressees, description, expressing the feelings, expression of intuitions. The aesthetic functions of metaphors are: creating images, consistency of images, succinctness of meanings in words (conciseness), vividness of the images, ambiguities, pregnancy to interpretations, multi connotations.