Analysis of Cognitive Metaphor of Love in Mathnavi and Ghazalyat of Bidel-e- Dehlavi

In a gnostic look, and specifically an amatory theosophy, love is the column of Creation, the origin of human emergence, and all the universe. “Almighty Allah says: I was a hidden treasure, then I decided to be known, so I created love and I was known” (Rajaee Bokharaee: 591). Allah points to love as the reason for creation and wise poets have expressed the most beautiful and the deepest interpretations for love in different thoughts and terms. Mewlana Jalal Al-din Mohammad Balkhi and Abdolghader Bidel-e- Dehlavi are among the great thinkers representing the deepest concepts and figurative pictures on love. In his cognitive metaphors on love, Mewlana uses such terms as fire, wine, animation, medic, light, voyage, etc. in fact three elements of fire, wine, and animation of love have the highest level of frequency in Mewlana’s Mathnavi, Bidel represents a more abstractive picture of love comparing to Mewlana and uses cognitive metaphors such as flame, speech, written, Sun, treasure, desert, pearl, image, association, secrets, etc. while creating his cognitive metaphors Bidel knowingly inserts some kind of ambiguity in his words that leads to external complication of his poetry. By extending his words and with the help of common terminology he attempts to spread and open his metaphors and make others understand him by giving highly elegant pictures. For him, love is like the sea, sun light, water, desert, king, hero, mirror, path, etc.