Love is the profoundest and the most central concept in Sufi thought and manners. From the Sufi ontological point of view, being rests on the basis of love; and from the ethical one, Love is a strong rope for the Sufi to hang on in order to sublimate his being into the status of annihilation. It is often said that love requires no manners or orders. However, it demands levels and features of wh...

Loneliness is a matter with which man has been faced all the time. In different fields such as Sufism, mysticism, psychology, philosophy and so on, a particular concept of the word is meant. Literature as the appearance arena of human thoughts and emotions has manifested these concepts and meanings in different ways. In the mystical Persian poetry, as the most prolific branch of Persian lit...