Legendary Secrets of the Mystical Number (According to the Chosen Texts Mystical Prose to the Seventh Century AH)

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Kourosh Goodarzi ¹ , seyyed mohsen hosseini ² , Mohammad reza roozbeh ³

1 - PhD Student, Persian Language and Literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Persian Language and Literature, Imam Khomeini University, Ghazvin, Ira.
3 - Associate Professor, Persian language and literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.

Received: 2021-09-17 Accepted : 2021-09-17 Published : 2021-09-23

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Abstract :

    Reflecting the impact of post-mythological legend in various fields of human life, the obvious thing and verified. It seems mystical one of the categories that have never been influenced by myths. One of these manifestations can be different in function of the numbers in the mythical and mystical texts followed. In this descriptive-analytic style, expression and reflection of the tangible and intangible functions mythical sacred numbers in Persian mystical texts prose elected to the seventh century AH is investigated. Of course, the similarities never spent because of the influence of mythology and mysticism is not conscious, because the expression of ideas of human society in other fields also have to be observed and analyzed. The results of this study suggest that a group of numbers, such as: one, two, three, four and seven of their multiples (forty, seventy, etc.), five, six, twelve thousand, consciously or unconsciously according to the collective conscience of humanity shared between two category Common myths and mysticism, functions such as: unity, diversity and abundance, evolution, are sacred and mysterious.