An Analysis over Mystical Sleep and Dreams from Molavi's Point of View
Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism
Hossein Arian
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(استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، واحد زنجان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، زنجان، ایران)
Mehdi Reza Kamali Baniyani
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(دانش آموخته دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اراک، ایران.)
Keywords: Mowlana, sleep, mysticism, Mosol universe, dream, revelation,
Abstract :
The subliminal meanings that descend from God take the physical form just like the one in our own imagination and then descend to the universe. All kinds of sleeps are related to this universe and the world of sleeping and dreaming is a widespread world full of wonders and mysteries that occur with a blink of an eye since there is no limitation in the world of imagination and it is a sublimed soul that roams in that universe. The Sleep and dream phenomena exceed the culture of the mass people and received practically a special attention in the word and thought of mystics and Sufis and even poets and writers. Molana together with some great men such as Ibn Arabi and the like has a mindful and divine attitude towards the concept of sleep and dream and sees it as a way to release soul from the body cage linking it to heaven. Based on various usages of dream in Masnavi ma"navi in this article following a short explanation on dream and it's characteristics, we examine dream characteristics in Masnavi poems.
