Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MA in Persian Language and Literature of Kharazmi university

2 Assistant Prof in English Language and Literature of Urmia Universiuty

Abstract

The issue of death has been one of the main issues of concern to most of the world’s poets and philosophers. Well-known poets such as Rumi in Persian literature and Henry Vaughan in English literature have addressed this issue a lot in their poems. They do not consider death as the end of life, but introduce it as the gate of the eternal life. Mullah Sadra, the great Islamic and Iranian philosopher, also considers death to be a release from the bondage of the body because human beings have the tendency to connect with the eternal essence of God. Following the principle of substantial motion. According to mystics and theosophists, it is better for a person to experience death before physical death by ignoring physical ties, so that he can cope with it more easily and join the eternal essence of God, which the ultimate goal. The present research is a descriptive-analytical investigation of Rumi and Henry Vaughan’s poems based on Mulla Sadra’s opinions regarding the concept of death. The results of the research show that although these three people lived in historical, linguistic and geographical periods far from each other, they have many similar personal and religious beliefs regarding death.
 
 




 

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