practical mysticism in Saadi's Boostan
Subject Areas : Mystical (with literary and artistic features)Marziyeh Attaran 1 , Mohammad yosof Nayyeri 2 *
1 - PhD Student in Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
2 - Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Keywords: Ehsan, means of conduct, service to people, existential monotheism, ethics.,
Abstract :
Although these actions are different in various mystical dynasties, they all emphasize remembrance, contemplation, solitude, worship, and the necessity of the existence of mentors, and Saadi has accepted these general principles. But innovations and breaking norms emerged from him, which are almost unprecedented until his time. In Saadi's view, the most important means of conduct or practical mistakes is to serve the people to the point where he has specialized it to the importance of serving the people and through this, his way of mysticism is formed in social interactions and the main ethics, and these two central principles are also included in the goals of conduct, as he considers both individual perfections and social roles. These two principles indicate a period of "redefinition" in Saadi’s way of mysticism. The basic components of this course are paying special attention to the principle of service, spreading the culture of behavior in all social layers from the common people to those in power and royalty, and at the same time reaching the position of existential monotheism and encountering God, which is the highest level of human perfection. With these prerequisites, Saadi considers the seeker of Allah to be a mixture of the perfections of form and meaning. And he has paid attention to both the construction of individual and social character of man.