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        1 - Secularism in the stories of Rumi’sMathnavi
        MirJalaledin Kazzazi Zohre Vafayi Fard
        Masnavi of Rumi is the most valuable moral mystical work of Persian literature which seeks to teach the real life and show peoplethe way ofbeing happy. Although the emphasis in this book is on the ultimate perfection of human and creation resource, but in a mutual relat More
        Masnavi of Rumi is the most valuable moral mystical work of Persian literature which seeks to teach the real life and show peoplethe way ofbeing happy. Although the emphasis in this book is on the ultimate perfection of human and creation resource, but in a mutual relationship,it quests for the good life in this world. The subject of this research is that the world and its manifestationshow and from what perspective have beenrepresented in this work. For this purpose, classifying the stories that have secularism components, we investigated the concepts and segmented them on the basis of the considered measures.It also attempts to examine how and why Rumishows tendencies to the world. So doing, after explaining the concept of secularism, all lines of Rumi's Mathnavi in several important areas of the manifestations of secularism,that is,wisdom, tolerance, avoiding prejudices based on morality and notthinking of heavenly reward and avoidance of blind imitation have been investigated and those stories which have explored the idea have beenmademore prominent with the aimof clarifying Maulana’s look at the world and its manifestations. As a result, we found that Maulana validatedworld because it is the way to heaven andperfection, but contrary to the many of reaserchers, Mulana has no negative point view to the world, but he emphasizing on making use of them,directly and indirectly described in the storiescontaining four hundred bits, all areas of secularismto reach the ultimate goal of creation.   Manuscript profile