«The Sky too Laughed» A Study of Religious-Ethical Views of Mustafa Rahmandust

Mustafa Rahmandust is a literary man in the field of children literature who succeeded to promote their religious-ethical field through his impressive works in the last decades. His works are replete with certain notions such as belief in God and the Day of Judgment and so on and so forth. Following a study of his poems and songs it can be concluded that in most of his poems life is considered to be a kind of blessing as given by God. Concerning Islam and Iran he has composed his poems for children in a lucid and moving manner. Moreover, his poems relate to children at the age levels of a, e, h, k. For children in a lower age he has described God in a preliminary language, while for children in a higher age he has composed certain poems with profound concepts such as Resurrection, reappearance of the Authority, respecting the parents and in this way he seeks to deal with religious and ethical issues. The present article sets on to study his religious and ethical views with a philosophical approach.