Velayat in Qodsi Hadith and its Effect on Persian literature

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Shahrokh mohammad Beigi ¹ , Albar Sayadkuh ² , Siavash Nariman ³

1 - دانشیار دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه شیراز
2 - دانشیار دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه
3 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه شیراز

Received: 2015-03-01 Accepted : 2018-08-04 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords: Qodsi Hadith, mystical texts, Velayat, Existence, Blaming, interpretation, vali,

Abstract :

"Velayat"(saints’ authority) and "Vali" (who has saints’ authority) are the most central words of Islamic culture, especially among Mysticism of Shia. This issue can be found in the oldest Islamic texts to the recent ones. This issue has been considered by Islamic scholars and mystics because of the Holy Quran’s attention to it which has also been followed in the speech of the Prophet Muhammad. Velayat position belongs to whom their negative mankind qualities has been disappeared and changed to Divine qualities by Allah. Such people will receive help in fighting against their sensuality by Allah and will receive His support. Allah has chosen them as his own friends. In the article, this topic has been investigated from the Qodsi Hadith (holy Hadith) in mystical books’ point of view, such as Kashfolmahjub, Qeshriyeh paper, Mersadolebad and etc. And the main topics of this paper are as follows