The relation between the Ways of Attaining the Truth in the Mathnawi of Maulawi

Geravand, Saeed; Ahmadtobi, Mazaher

doi:10.22059/jcis.2024.356347.1319

The relation between the Ways of Attaining the Truth in the Mathnawi of Maulawi

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Department of Religions and Mysticism, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University,Tabriz, Iran

10.22059/jcis.2024.356347.1319

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One of the important topics in Sufism and Islamic mysticism is the ways to reach the truth. The Mathnawī of Maulawi is one of the most prominent religious and mystical works in the Islamic tradition, in which the goal of mystic journey and the ways of arriving at the Truth are discussed. Considering the importance of the ways of attaining the truth on the one hand, and considering the importance of The Mathnawī i Ma'navi on the other hand, this article aims to investigate"The Ways of Attaining the Truth in the Mathnawi of Maulawi" with a descriptive and analytical method. Maulawi calls a person sometimes through action and performing religious duties, sometimes through knowledge, and sometimes through love and submission to the truth. According to the Mathnawi, there is a mutual and two-way relationship between these three ways, so that the possibility of separating one from the other seems unreasonable and unjustifiable. One who acts without knowledge is only in the realm of the external senses. Knowledge is born of action. Selfless action is the same as having knowledge. Also, love is not realized in a field far from action and knowledge. Action and knowledge also evolve only with love.

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