The Metaphor Ox in Mawlana’s Mathnawi
The metaphor ox is generally used for meanings of animal and carnal qualities such as eating, drinking, sleeping and sexual relation. In our essay, we will seek answers of main question in which meanings Mawlana used the metaphor ox. In this case, we will investigate and try to understand the metaphorical meanings which he had attributed to ox, such as self, livelihood worldly property, person who conform to his self as suiting his animal emotions, hypocritical/two-faced person, false sheikh (head of a derwish order), person uninformed of spiritual/sufistic truths, person who not pay attention to call of prophets and saints and lover. Keywords Mawlana, metaphor, ox, non-mytician scholars, self, lover.
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