Being Happy and Carpe Diem in Khayyam's and Tarafeh's Thoughts

Complex puzzle of existence, life and death, being and non-being always makes the human being to think and astound thoughtful people. Khayyam, the philosopher and poet of 5th Hijri century, is one of these thoughtful people that this puzzle of life and death made him to think about the world. Sometimes this mystery led him to pessimism and as a result he invited people to carpe diem and being happy for gaining more pleasure from this transient world. Tarafe Ibn Abd, the famous poet of Arabic literature, also shows that everyone should use the world opportunity and benefits from the world and this matter is the main point of his poetry; poems similar to Khayyam’s thoughts. There is a difference between their poems. The difference is that Tarafeh can’t tell us about the real meaning of life and he believes that death is the end of human life and invites people to use the opportunity of life. This research wants to compare the two poets and analyze Khayyam’s point of view about carpe diem.