The Status of Friend and Companion in Molana’s Quatrains

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.v7n3s3p51