بازتاب مفهوم قرآني صبر در آثار عطار نيشابوري

Reflection of the Quranic Concept of Patience in the Works of Attar Neishabouri

What is sufism? Relaxing in patience and freeing oneself from the whole world. As patience has a crucial role in manʹs spiritual and social perfection, God has spoken about it in various verses of the Quran and has ordered man to have it in different individual and social situations. Patience is considered essential in mysticism and sufism which are profound perceptions of the divine rules of the Quran. This concept has also had a vast and extensive reflection in mystical poetry. The poems which Attar Neishabouri, the well-known mystic and poet of the 12th century has composed are among the unique masterpieces of Persian mystical literature. in these poems, he has described the mysteries of the spiritual journey in the form of codes, symbols, and sometimes various stories and allegories. From Attarʹs point of view, patience has a significant role in the spiritual journey. Actualizing divine powers and potentialities hidden in manʹs soul, patience causes man to get free from his limited material self and join the infinite, absolute being. Referring to the outstanding works of Attar such as Divan of poems, Manteq-al-Teir, Ellahi Nam-e, Asrar-Nam-e, Mossibat Nam-e, and Mokhtar Nam-e, the writer of this article has tried to illustrate the role and importance of patience in the journey toward God from the view point of this great mystic.