Nizami Ganjavi’s creative work in the religious-philosophical-irfan context

Abstract

Nizami Ganjavi enriched Eastern literary thinking with scientific and philosophical ideas and raised his poetry to unprecedented heights with his universal and wonderful poetic power. Famous “Khamsa” of the poet-thinker, standing on the highest top searching for the spiritual riches of mankind and has occupied the worthy place among the masterpieces of world literature. During his creativity, Nizami Ganjavi wrote lyric poems, and later, expressed his progressive social and philosophical ideas in his poetry for the first time.
His work, based on the Holy Quran, calls people to beautiful morality, to love motherland, to live on the way guided by the Almighty, to live bravely, drink of knowledge sherbet and live with love to Almighty, the Prophet, Motherland, land, people and the nation. Nizami Ganjavi left such sign in Muslim Eastern literature, that hundreds of Iranian and Indian poets wrote and create under his influence. The most famous of these masnavis are: Creative works: “Matlaul-Anvar” by Amir Khosrov Dehlavi, “Minhajul-Abrar” by Dervish Ashraf Maragai, “Mazhar-ul-Asar” by Hashimi Kirmani, “Majmaul-Abkar” by Urfi Shirazi, “Manbaul-Anwar” by Malik Qumy, “Manzaul Abrar” by ItabyTaklawi, “Riyazul-Anvar” by Qasim Asiri, “Rafigus-Saligin” by Adhamy, “Husni-Kalusuz” by Zulaly, Mulla Sheid “Dovlati-Bidar” by Mulla Sheida. But the creators, who grew up in the literary school of Nizami, are not only them. There are thousands of them, and it is difficult to enumerate all of them here.
According to Nizami, the only way of life is Islam. Devote yourself to the Almighty. People created by the Almighty should have no other way of life, than Islam. The prophets sent to lead humanity have always preached the Islamic way of life.
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