Abstract

Jalaludin Bahauddin Soltane Olama Valad Ibne Hossein Ibne Ahmad Khatibi known as Molana is the creator of great works in prose and poetry in Persian literature; one of these works is Kullyat of Shams Tabrizi that includes his collection of quatrains that is known as a great extensive work and notable from different aspects same as poetic music and poetic expression, linguistic features, words variety, literary criticism, mystical thoughts, social and moral ideas, storytelling method and … . Study regarding this senseful and profitable work has not been investigated despite the availability of the other great works of Molana as Masnavi and Ghazalyat e Shams and the opportunity to work in this field is so wide and spacious. whereas, the root of each literary work develops in the social environment and the social requirements of a period is obvious in the poems of a poet and regarding the mastery of Molana on all the sciences in that time and his companionship with the people that lead to identification of social life experiences and moral contents in those days; so the present study investigates the social-moral contents of quatrains of Molana and it is hoped that it could serves to sociology studies of literature and sociological criticism and a starting point with the aim of comprehensive study of quatrains of Molana. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p55

Highlights

  • The literary criticism known as elocution and oration refer to “recognition of the value and the worth of literary works and scholium of it; so that the good and bad aspects and origin of it turn out to be known” (Zarrinkoob, 2002, p.2)

  • The study of ethical and social issues that are considered as a kind of educational issues is a specific kind of criticism that is considerable regarding the study of didactic aspects of those works

  • When the human doesn't care for wealth or for the humility, will reach to a status that make no difference between the gold and the stone. This is the status in which the man reaches to real relaxation and wealth or poverty could not make him happy or sad: “A relieved person is the one that doesn’t care for less or more, The one that doesn’t care for wealth or poverty He is free from the sorrow of the world and the people, He has no kinship with himself” Molana looks at the subject of the world wealth from another viewpoint in another quatrain

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Introduction

The literary criticism known as elocution and oration refer to “recognition of the value and the worth of literary works and scholium of it; so that the good and bad aspects and origin of it turn out to be known” (Zarrinkoob, 2002, p.2). The study of ethical and social issues that are considered as a kind of educational issues is a specific kind of criticism that is considerable regarding the study of didactic aspects of those works. There are many independent works in Persian literature that are considered in the field of educational literature that was written from the beginning with the aim of didactic and ethic. The works of Molana are full of ethical-social remarks. The Molana’s quatrains that are considered in the present study are less addressed in literature due the great reputation of other works of Molana

Joy and Relaxation
Hardness and Comfort
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