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The main concern of the article is to show that the Prophetic metaphors |\n| Accepted: July 26, 2018 | are discursively practiced by the Prophet for the function of persuading his audience to accept |\n| Published: October 31, 2018 | Islamic laws, and introduce rites and rituals, and to prohibit the unlawful. Through a survey of |\n| Volume: 9 Issue: 5 | instances of metaphoric scenarios and images, and in reference to the contemporary cognitive |\n| Advance access: August 2018 | theory of metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980), the article demonstrates that the persuasiveness of the prophetic metaphors is primarily evoked by disambiguation, arousing the emotions, and implicit threat. |\n|  |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None |  |\n| Funding: None |  |\n| Key words: |  |\n| Metaphor, |  |\n| Persuasion, |  |\n| Discourse, |  |\n| Prophet Muhammad,\u003Cbr>Islam |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nOne of the established conceptions about the Prophet Muhammad’s Tradition that it involves a large bulk of Sayings with their main objective is to establish a discourse that calls for the full submission and allegiance to a faith that calls for the worship of one God. Furthermore, this Tradition proposes a matching discourse that regulates the inter-communal relations between members of Islamic society and the neighbouring non-Muslim societies. On the one hand, delivering such parallel discourses necessitated a body of edifying, moral, and legislative principles which encompass and delineate the purposes of Islamic faith, and the Prophetic Tradition encompasses the largest portion of these principles (Forte, 1978) . As well, the Prophetic message has laid down a discourse that has reproduced a new society which adores an original faith with agreeable norms, standards, and values. This discourse is the product of a language tailored in terms of form and content by means of discursive practices; communicative practices based on rules that define and construct their referents (Buchanan, 2010: ‘discursive practice’), and one of these most salient practices is the Prophet’s purposeful employment of metaphors.  \nThis article argues that metaphorical language is used in the Prophetic tradition to address a variety of functions and purposes. These ‘Prophetic metaphors’ are used within a procedural framework that represents and recapitulates a set of  \nideologies and social practices which distinguish the Muslim society and Islamic doctrine based on early Arabs’beliefs and experiential knowledge (El-Sharif, 2012) . For instance the prophetic metaphors present Islam as a faith, introduce Muslims and non-Muslims and their characteristics, implement Islamic laws and legislation, define the nature of faith, and introduce the path of Islam in terms of beliefs and rites and rituals, and prohibited practices. However, several social practices which are dictated by the Prophet Muhammad involve an unquestionable sense of duty and obligation. A Muslim is compulsorily required to adhere to these practices and observe them, and lenience in observing them might be recognised as deviating from Islam. Still, a substantial argument on the use of the Prophetic metaphors is their primary use for the purpose of persuading the Prophet’s followers about the message of  \nadhering to Islam and embracing it as the only sound faith.  \nIslam, as a word, is originated from the Arabic triadic consonantal root s-l-m that makes the verb ‘aslama’1, which m","cbCaima4cCkBnazY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaima4cCkBnazY","pdf",387667,"English","# Introduction\n## Metaphors as discursive practices\n## Functions and purposes of Prophetic metaphors\n## Islam and submission as a metaphorical concept","[{\"question\":\"What is the main issue the article addresses?\",\"answer\":\"The article focuses on the persuasiveness of metaphors in the Prophetic Tradition of Muhammad.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article explain the way Prophetic metaphors persuade audiences?\",\"answer\":\"It argues persuasion is primarily evoked through disambiguation, arousing emotions, and using implicit threat.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of functions does the article attribute to Prophetic metaphors?\",\"answer\":\"The metaphors are used to present Islam, define beliefs and rites, implement laws, characterize Muslims and non-Muslims, and prohibit unlawful practices.\"}]","What Can the Prophet Muhammad’s Metaphors Do? | PDF",1792068273,15]