THE MYSTICAL TENDENCIES IN THE PERSIAN POETRY: A PERENNIAL STUDY OF JALALUDDIN RUMI

Abstract

This is a qualitative study which efforts to take impressions of the mystical perspectives in the Persian poetry by way of the greatest mystic poet, Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi within the framework of Aldous Huxley's Philosophy of Perennials. The study incomes the mystical features, attributes and tendencies in poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi. This study also discusses the experience of God and the mystic's soul in love with God. It uses the core points of Huxley’s theory, for the progress of mystic path: Higher and Lower horizons of living, longing for the reconnection with the beloved, expressions of feelings of departure of the soul from its Beloved and the desires of the rejoining with God. This study finds that the soul has to cover certain steps for its desire to be fulfilled. In this approach, the study discovers some positive connections and procedures for the humans want to come upon these mystical experiences. The study concludes that, there is an ultimate goal for every soul to connect with its creator. The experience of the soul with God is exclusive and personal. Rumi has distinctiveness in his style, experiences, perceptions and tendencies but the essence of his poetry is equivalent and balanced.