Spiritual Distortion, Challenge and Immortality of the Quran from the Perspective of Rumi's Mathnavi

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Sedigheh  Esfandiary ¹ (دانشجوی دکتری علوم قرآن و حدیث، واحد یزد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، یزد، ایران.)
mohammad reza  shayegh ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Education, Vahedzad, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran)
Mohammad Reza  Abuei ³ (استادیار گروه معارف اسلامی، واحد یزد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، یزد، ایران.)

Received: 2021-05-08 Accepted : 2021-07-20 Published : 2023-05-22

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Abstract :

The Holy Quran is a book of guidance and a source of mercy and good news for Muslims. Throughout history, verses of Quran and themes have been an artistic tool and a source of inspiration for poets and writers. In Rumi's Mathnavi, the use, martyrdom and recourse of themes and stories of Quran is so wide and varied that it is either not possible to understand most of the Mathnavi except by knowing the concepts of Quran or, if possible, it cannot be comprehensive and complete. On the contrary, it seems more possible to know some esoteric and spiritual truths of the Quran with Rumi's book. In the present study, which has been done by descriptive-analytical method and using library resources, examples of spiritual distortion of the Quran in Rumi's Mathnavi, the poet's challenge in his Mathnavi with the Holy Quran and its meanings and finally the immortality of the Quran in Mathnavi Is mentioned. The results indicate that the spiritual distortion of the Quran in Mathnavi is in the context of the story of not prostrating to the devil, the cases of defiance with the Quran are more than the cases of distortion and finally the clear manifestation of verses of Quran, concepts and stories in Rumi's Mathnavi shows well. This poet, in turn, has a role to play in perpetuating the concepts of the Holy Quran and transmitting its teachings to the people of later historical periods.