“Reflects of the Teachings of the Gospels in Masnavi”

Author:
Hamid Bigdeli
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Abrahamic Religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2018
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Mohammad Reza Yousefi
Advisor(s):
Mehrab Sadegh Nia

Christianity is one of the great religions of Abrahamic ones that has spread to Iran before Islam. The intrinsic features of the gospel, in particular, have been such as to have worked remarkably in Islamic literature, especially Islamic mysticism, in the way that each of the Islamic mystics has benefited from it. Among the mystics, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi is one of the greatest Islamic mystics who used the teachings of the gospel and used them in his book. In this research, I have shown that we can classify Rumi’s use of the Gospel in a striking manner, though sometimes overlapping, but it cannot be called two separate methods. It is not a function of allegorical-fiction. This is a way of illustrating the gospel and the past through the context of the story, among which the doctrines of their views have expanded. These stories are part of the Gospel and are part of a non-Gospel origin and fake.  In the second part, Rumi has given a symbolic-idiomatic function to the teachings of the gospel. In this way, one of the characters or terminology of the Gospel is used in one or two bits in a symbolic way, and with the help of these symbolic terms, he has revealed the doctrines og the gospel