Prayer and blessing in the Shahnameh

Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature

Shamsolhajiyeh  Ardalani ¹ (Assistant professor of Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad university Bushehr branch- Iran)

Received: 2014-06-26 Accepted : 2014-10-03 Published : 2015-02-20

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Abstract :

A condition for prayers to be accepted is to know god and to give attention to prayers. Therefore prayer is the beginning of the way and not the end of it. Any sort of attention to god and any sort of heartily connection with divine spirit is considered as pray and worship. The strongest connection between human and their creator is in the prayer.  Fervent prayer in the Persian literature is in the category of lyrical literature and originates from feelings and sentiments. Ferdowsi utilizes benediction instead of fervent prayer more than other poets. In hardship, characters of the Shahnameh after purification, beg to God for their problems to be solved. They sometime find private connection with God without thinking to their own wills. This research is an investigation in the Shahnameh with respect to prayers and with the aim of obtaining knowledge on Shahname’s theism.