Dialectics of Happiness and Sadness as Viewed by Attar and Mowlavi
Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism
Naser
Gozashteh
1
(استادیار دانشگاه تهران، دانشکده الهیات و معارف اسلامی.)
Mojdeh
Shariatmadari
2
(استادیار دانشگاه تهران، دانشکده الهیات و معارف اسلامی.)
Keywords: existential experience, happiness, dialectic, sadness, Attar, Rumi, love,
Abstract :
This study investigates the possibility of dialectical readings of Attar and Rumi's experience of sadness and happiness. To this end, we had an effort to pave the way to understand the meaning of dialectic and dialectical intuition in Attar and Rumi's works, and claimed that their dialectical declaration came from their own dialectical worldview. Then we studied sadness and happiness in their living world and figured out that when grief and gladness are directed toward the material world they turn out to be false sadness and happiness, and also whenever one releases his or her self from worldly and temporal attachments, all his cry and laugh, contraction and expansion, jolly and boredom and finally his sadness and happiness become a different type. If we look at Attar and Rumi's experience dialectically, we will understand how drowning in love and living in infinity can put man in another form of life which has new flavor. With the help of this dialectic viewpoint we can find out why Attar's world is full of grief and sadness while for Rumi it is overall cheerfulness and dance.
