Allegorical manifestations of human and non-human characters in the Persian poems of Allama Iqbal Lahori
Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature
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Keywords: Iqbal Lahori, allegory, Persian works of Iqbal Lahori, symbol,
Abstract :
Iqbal Lahori's poetry is a symbolic allegory of guidance and a kind of educational literature with a new style in order to spread education and spread knowledge. Also, Iqbal is a poet of pain and wants to make people's eyes, ears and hearts familiar with these symbolic allegories. In this rare tableau from an allegorical dimension with the aim of allegorical thinking and human characters of the first and second degree in his Persian poems. and the allegorical and symbolic expression of non-human characters in his Persian poems with a simpler concept to the audience and the necessity of a new horizon and with a descriptive, analytical method on his poems and also according to the research questions and hypotheses from the allegorical dimension of the characters The first-class human being in the poems of the poets, role models and heroes of the parables of his poems are the saints, people and holy persons believed in by Islam and especially the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. The Holy Prophet , Hazrat Ali , Hazrat Fatima and Imam Hussein, or as they say, there are five pure people. And in the second degree, from the allegorical dimension in the poems of Lahori, the saints of God, Seyyed Ali Hajwiri Ghaznavi, Sheikh Mian Miroli, and Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. And there are non-human characters from the allegorical aspect of symbolic allegory, such as the lion, Shahbaz, domestic chicken, Esther, butterfly, firefly, and eagle, each of which has a good symbolic message for us.
