Mystical impressions of the story of Yusuf (AS)
Subject Areas : Persian Language and LiteratureMaryam raisi 1 , ata mohammd radmansh 2
1 - university najaf abad
2 - universiti najaf abad
Keywords: " Zeal", "Story of Joseph", " Joseph as a mirror", " love", " Interpretation and mystical symbolization",
Abstract :
Story of Joseph as one of the best tales has caused various perceptions about it. One of the most important viewpoints is interpretation of mystics. In this article, we explain the viewpoint of mystics by extracting the themes. In order to do so, Tazkirat al-Awliya, al-Risala al-Qushayriyyh, Kashf ul Mahjoob, Meybodi Interpretation and other books were reviewed and the themes of the story were analyzed in relation with high mystical concepts divisible into two parts of concepts related to love and other mystic ones .Such studies show that love is more prominent than every topic in this story . Paying attention to the stages of love makes us understand how love causes the story achieve one position of most beautiful stories .Love as one of houses of knowledge causes a basic change in existence of follower . Addressing the love and mystical concepts related to it, has changed story to one of most fruitful and interpretable Quran stories. Joseph’s beauty as mirror and knowing it as place where divine beauties are displayed, increase insight of such love. The zeal of beloved for lover, self-sacrifice in affection and truth of love are the themes which show that love is key topic of Joseph’s story from viewpoint of mystics. The mystics have also considered characters of story as symbols by like Zuleikha as blaming soul , Jacob as wisdom , Joseph as heart or follower of path involved in jealousy anger and lust power as result of the attention of Jacob .
