Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

Author

• Hmidreza Tavakoli

Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

Shams' first conversation with Rumi was about Bayazid. Shams specifies this point at the end of an Arabic speech in Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi (Discourse of Shams-i Tabrīzī). In a similar way, Bayezid's criticism appears many times in the words of Shams. The same criticism is repeated about Hallaj. After all, the points related to this critical remark are often seen in the articles; reflections on obedience and heresy, shath (an ecstatic utterance) and drunkenness, sobriety after drunkenness, predestination and silence. But the main point is that Rumi obviously has a different view and words on this issue. He is not only a praiser of Bayezid and Hallaj; rather, he talks about drunkenness and romantic predestination with increased passion. At the same time, in the mind and language of Rumi, the spirit of Shams' speech is present without its application in the criticism of people like Bayazid. This article is an attempt to analyze the first question of Shams and propose various aspects of the duality of Shams and Rumi's view in this perspective, as well as suggestions to explain this distinction and independence of the perspective.

Keywords

• Rumi
• Shams Tabrizi
• Bayazid
• shath
• drunken and ecstatic (sukr)

Main Subjects

• Sufism and Mysticism