This study is aimed to investigate metaphor and the use pattern of thought in a speech in interpreting the Quran proposed by Nouman Ali Khan. Nouman Ali Khan is an American lecturer and also a Muslim influencer in the world. Furthermore, this also tries to find out the strategies Nouman Ali Khan used in his speech. In speaking, people will try to correlate their mind and their utterances. The utterances became an expression from the peoples minds. The metaphor also relates to knowing and thinking in a language style expression, while the way the people expressing the mind is to produce the pattern. Kaplan proposes the theories that say how people thought built the pattern in thinking. The pattern of language use is a unique phenomenon that occurs in every people. They have systematically pattern in using their mind and language unconsciously. This study used qualitative methods to explain what and how Nouman Ali Khan uses the language metaphor and analogy in his speech. The subject of the analysis in the Nouman Ali Khan speech consisted of surah Fatiha interpretation. Furthermore, the researcher concludes that the strategy used in speech is defined as the explanation concept that he t researcher used based on related theory. Nouman Ali Khan tends to reflect simply that the speech and public speaking should engage the speaker with the audience.

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Wadani, T. A., & Setiawan, S. (2020). language metaphor and pattern of though used by Nouman Ali Khan speech of Quran interpretation. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 6(2), 78-84. doi: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20003-2