A Study of Inspirations and Inductions in Tazkirat al-Awliya

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Azim Mohammadnezhad ¹ , ali Ramazany ² , Narges Asghari Gavar ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری گروه زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد اهر، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اهر، ایران.
2 - Islamic Azad University of Ahar.
3 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد اهر، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اهر، ایران.

Received: 2020-04-28 Accepted : 2020-07-22 Published : 2023-05-22

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Abstract :

Based on his substantial and intensified motion, man is created in such a way that he attains a level that is prone to receiving divine inspirations or evil inductions and all kinds of dangers. "khavᾱter" are of two types, which are divine categories and enter the human heart from God, which is called "inspiration", and a category descends from the devil into the human heart, which is called "induction". Sometimes divine inspirations are mediated and sometimes unmediated. The mediators of inspiration are called the angels. The opposite of inspiration is induction by the devil. Tazkirat al-Awliya is a mystical work on the biography of the great saints, written by Sheikh Farid al-Din Muhammad Attar Neyshabouri. The research method of this essay is analytical-descriptive. Because the subject of this article is presented for the first time, it is important in this regard. In the book Tazkirat al-Awliya ', the inspirations are more than the instincts and are mostly done by listening. In this article, the authors try to discuss examples of inspirations and inductions from the book Tazkirat al-Awliya.