a survey on mystic and religious concepts in one of rumi’s stories

rumi’s masnavi is one of the great resources of religious and moral understandings. behind its verses, there are lots of valuable learning and counsels. by studying its form in a more profound way, we can go through the meaning of the first layer to the meaning of the second layer where we can find these learning. in this paper, we consider one of the stories of this book entitled: a king who annoyed a sleeping man whom a snake was going into his mouth. after the linguistic(using lebov’s pattern) and religious studies we found that rumi has guided the reader from the first layer meaning toward the second by using words, literary devices, narratives and koran verses and back ground knowledge. so, we concluded that message of this story is: being patient in the face of problems, trust in god, bearing hardships that we face when walking on the right way and friendship with scholars, in spite of their apparent annoyance.