Erfaniyat Dar Adab Farsi

Death is among the subject which has always occupied the human’s mind. In mysticism, in addition to the compulsory death which is a rule of nature, another specific type of death has been considered that is called voluntary Death or “rebirth”. Voluntary death means to wipe out the evil and inhuman manners and characteristics from the soul and to decorate the soul with divine and moral ones. As a result, voluntary death is a kind of rebuilding of one’s soul.

In the present article, first compulsory death as an important aspect of the world has been discussed and then the research has elaborated on” voluntary death “and finally, the concept of voluntary death in poems by Sanaei and Attar has been investigated. It should be mentioned that” voluntary death “has been called “Death before Death” by both Sanaee and Attar.

Death and thinking about it have definitely occupied the minds of poets, writers, mystics, and thinkers throughout the history. In fact, thinking about death has overshadowed the thoughts and the works of many writers and thinkers particularly in the Persian literature. Mystic poets like Sanai, Attar, and Molana have always cherished death in their poems and believe that death is inevitable and cannot be escaped. They, however, believe that true and voluntary death is possible through abstinence and the purification of the soul. Inspired by the Quran’ verses and Ahadith, they presume that we need to voluntarily surrender ourselves before the real death comes. In this short article, the author attempts to describe and analyze the views of mystic poets like Sanai, Attar, and Molana in relation to the concepts of death and voluntary death as well as the ways by which a voluntary death can be realized. Their views of death will be depicted through some examples of their poems.

As a whole. Two kinds of death can be found in the mystic' look, compulsory and voluntary. For obtaining the second one, we must understand the death and the cause of the creation. Apure Life leads to drighteous Look to the Life. They all lead to the eternal Life which is the time for meeting the Lod. for obtaining the God one must leave eveything and this is, itself, a second Life. When we came to this world, we Left the vegetable and animality Stages, so for Leaving these attributes. It is only the death which solves this problem. So death itself is just eternal Life.