“Allegory” the Common Instrument in the Religious Texts

Subject Areas : Quarterly Sabzevaran Fadak

Feyzollah Akbari Dastak ¹ (Assistant Professor,Department of … , Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj,Iran.)

Received: 2013-11-24 Accepted : 2013-11-24 Published : 2012-12-01

Keywords: قرآن کریم, allegory, تمثیل, مشترکات بیانی, مفاهیم, أناجیل أربعه, Explanatory Commonalities, The Holy Koran,

Abstract :

The language of allegory as one of the most important instrument in inspiration of the words and an effective method for transmission of a messege has always had a special position.Anallegory is a sort of comparison and simile and it is used when the narrator find his or her addressee unable to grasp his or her own special intention.It is obvious that the most divine prophets has benefited from the impressive and effective instrument of allegory a lot in their propegational methods and expressedthe majority of their moral and cultural advices and sermons with a simplified language and in the form of evident Eloquent and charming allegories to their nations.The present paper, with the focus on the divine texts of the islam and cristianity,has studied the effective role of the allegory in transmission of the cultural and religious concepts and on the other hand it has emphasized on their common attention in creating the kips of approaching and boosting the common opinion and knowledge principles of islam and cristianitys’ suits.