Bidel in the Deep Ocean of the Mystical Sonnet: A Critical Perspective

Subject Areas : Literary criticism

Mehdi Mahouzi ¹ , Seyyed Ibrahim Arman ²

1 - Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Roodehen Islamic Azad University
2 - Assi. Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch

Received: 2011-05-01 Accepted : 2011-05-10 Published : 2011-05-10

Keywords: بیدل دهلوی, mysticism, العرفان, الغزلیات العرفانیة, الأسلوب الهندی, وحدة الوجود, Bidel Dehlavi, mystical sonnets, Indian School in Persian poetry, Pantheism,

Abstract :

Bidel Dehlavi as the greatest mystical poet in the Indian Subcontinent has unleashed the Indian School of Persian poetry from its formal form and style. To him the sonnet was the continuation of the thoughts and ideas of Mowlavi’s in his ‘Shamsiyaat’. The present article is an attempt to come to an understanding of Bidel through the lens of his mystical sonnets where he upholds the idea that, in the process of the mystical return a human being takes , all the forms of multiplicity direct themselves towards a direction of unity. All those forms in their downward waft from the creator to the created are representational which confer and illustrate the characteristics of the Creator. The mystical sonnets of Bidel dramatize a mystical epic which renders the love of a human being for his eternal beloved. These sonnets frequently carry surreal layers of meaning in themselves thus making the poetic vocabulary he uses in his depiction of such a mystical expressions quite perplexing to the readers as well as the researchers. All these said, his poetry bears such an enthusiasm and attraction in itself that his use of such meter and feet, rhythm and rhyme has all made it more inviting and effective to the readers.

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