Mystical Psycology of Religion in Mathnawi’s Vol. 6based on Jung’s Theory

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

mohammad amin Ehsani Estahbanati ¹ , Maryam Shafiee Taban ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Literature, Estahban Higher Education Center, Shiraz, Iran.
2 - Faculty Member Persian Language and Literature Dept., Payam-e-Nour University, Iran

Received: 2022-03-07 Accepted : 2022-03-07 Published : 2022-03-21

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Abstract :

Mystical experience of religion is confrontation with the idea of the Holy and understanding of the presence of God’s existence, which manifests itself individually or collectively within individuals. In psychology, this mystical experience is a kind of inner and innate tendency. Jung emphasizes that the mystical experience of religion is a kind of Holy and Minovi experience that is institutionalized in the conscious and largely unconscious collective consciousness of man. Carl Gustav Jung (1961-1875) Swiss psychologist and founder of analytical psychology, by proposing the theory of collective unconscious archetypes, tried to open a new window to mysticism; Because it focuses on natural and spontaneous experiences, especially in dreams and fantasies that seem to be reinforced by Islamic mysticism. Rumi also considers mystical faith and experience of religion as love, which is instinctively in human nature, and the attraction of soul to the origin and principle that is proposed in Islamic mysticism is due to this thinking. Rumi sees love as the stimulus of the human soul in attracting the soul to the divine and mystical mood, on the way to the highest experiences of faith. This article is based on a case study of Carl Gustav Jung's Theory on the mystical experience of Rumi's religion and ideas in Mathnawi vol.6. Referring to the mystical psychology of religion from Jung and Rumi's point of view, the article concludes that the issue of the instinct of religion and mysticism is one of the common points of Rumi's thought and Jung's psychology the idea of the Holy.