The Confrontation between Wisdom and Love in Sa’di’s poetry and Mulana’s Mathnavi

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

لیلا شهریاری ¹ , حسین اسماعیلی ^{2 *} , محمد شفیعی ³

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Accepted : 2023-01-09 Published : 2024-12-09

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Abstract :

One of the intellectual themes in the history of Persian literature has been the confrontation of reason and love, which is often evident between mystics and philosophers. In this research, the opposition of reason and love with a comparative view and examining the aspects of contradiction and similarity of this issue in the thoughts and ideas of two great Persian poets - Rumi and Sa’di. Demonstrating mystical thought and mystical view of the subject under discussion in the works of these two poets is the main goal of the author of this research. Anyway, the two fundamental domains of reason and love along with philosophers' dissidence of ideas have influenced many Persian poets among whom Sa’di and Molavi's mentalities regarding this point deserve consideration. In general, though the two poets would conclude that reason is good enough, it is worth nothing compared with love. With this general conclusion that reason is acceptable to both poets but has no local love for the Arabs, the answer to the question of which of the great scholars studied in the central topics of the subject, namely reason and love, is another matter that the author To undertake this research.