Reflection of the Mystical Thoughts of the Chishti Order in Amir Khosro Dehlavi’s Masnavi

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Seyyed Taleb Jalali ¹ , abbas kheyrabadi ² , Hamidreza Soleimanian ³ , Mahmood Firoozi Moghaddam ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد تربت حیدریه، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تربت‌حیدریّه، ایران
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Torbat Heydariyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran
3 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد تربت حیدریه، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تربت‌حیدریّه، ایران
4 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد تربت حیدریه، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تربت‌حیدریّه، ایران

Received: 2019-08-28 Accepted : 2019-12-29 Published : 2022-09-23

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Abstract :

Cheshti is an influential order within the mystic Sufi tradition in India. It has been established as a prominent mystical system. Amir Khosrow Dehlavi, a prominent Indian poet who was influenced by the teachings of this method, has created his own literary works, using his Sufi knowledge of the Chishti way, to explain his mystical views. This descriptive study seeks to examine the mystical aspects of Amir Khosrow's fictional Masnavi. Certainly, the most basic doctrines of Cheshti works reflected in this poet's masnavi are: manifestation, unity of existence, revelation, divine providence, love and eternity, emanating of love through the world, virtual love, compassion, lust, Murshid, abandonment, pleasure, and abstraction. Some of these features have been examined in this study e.g., unity of existence, sight, providence, and divine will. The results reveales the fact that the Sufi principles of the Chishti order have had a direct impact on Amir Khosrow Dehlavi’s works and the terms and expressions of this order have been used to teach and promote the Chishti order.