A study of the specifications of perceptual metaphors and their benefits in the supplication of Abu Hamza al-Thamali

Abstract

There are important abstract concepts that need a special method of delineation as appropriate; Including some concepts related to the monotheistic religions, especially the Islamic. The supplication of Abu Hamza Al-Thamali is one of the most important supplications that the Shiite pray to his Lord, and it is a long sea filled with heavenly concepts. It called us to study the abstract concepts that were mentioned in existential and bodily expressions and words.

Perceptual metaphor theory or conceptualization is one of the modern cognitive theories that will study what we are looking for in this supplication. This modern theory’s view of language differs from the ancient rhetorical and aesthetic vision. George Lakoff and Mark Janson were the first to put forward cognitive metaphor as a new epistemological theory. This research aims to study perceptual metaphors, their specifications and benefits in the supplication of Abu Hamzah Al-Thumali in the fields of "Going to God", "Request and Question" and " hopefulness ".

If it were not for the possibility of using these metaphorical expressions of language, the caller would not have been able to reveal what is inside him with his Lord in the framework of pure phrases and dry words, and he would not know who follows the saying of such supplications by knocking on God’s door in words and phrases