Investigating and analyzing the Meaningful Components of Life from Rumi's Viewpoint

Rumi's poetry explores the meaning of life through philosophical and mystical components, including sadness, happiness, self-knowledge, and death awareness. A key teaching is that self-knowledge gives life purpose: by knowing oneself, one discovers that existence and God reside within the soul. The article uses content analysis and a descriptive-analytical method to examine these themes in the Mathnawi, arguing that Rumi presents life's dimensions—material, spiritual, worldly, eternal, animal, and human—as accessible only through a compassionate intellect.

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Abstract

Rumi is a prodigious verse in the breadth of thought and the power of expression. Undoubtedly expressing narrow rules and heavenly meanings in the form of anecdotes and allegories, poetry is one of Rumi's unparalleled skills. In his mystical view, Rumi describes the dimensions of life (worldly and afterlife) in the form of poetry that only general and compassionate intellect can understand. In this paper, which has been done by content analysis and descriptive-analytical method, the meaningful components of life have been explored from Rumi's point of view. Rumi collects philosophical and mystical components of life and explores them from various aspects such as material, spiritual, worldly, eternal, animal and human. This article contributes to these components and explores them from the perspective of the Mathnawi spiritual pastor. In this paper, components such as sadness, happiness, self-knowledge, death awareness, etc. are discussed from Rumi's point of view, and their role in life and their meaning in life are discussed. Perhaps it can be said that one of the most important teachings of Rumi regarding the meaning of life is self-knowledge, the purpose of our life is to know ourselves and to examine ourselves. Rumi believes that in order for man to have a correct understanding of the meaning of life, he must know himself, then he will know that existence and the God of existence are all in him, the treasure and treasure that man seeks is his soul.