A Critique and Correction of Hadiqat al-Haqiqa by Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi and Seyyed Mehdi Zarghani

The high position of Hadiqah al-Haqiqa in Persian literature has led to a lot of research on it; nevertheless, issues such as linguistic complexities, the use of other scientific terms, the obsolescence of the language, historical and religious references, and the irregular structure of the poem have left some of the ambiguities of this work unresolved. In the meantime, one should not be ignorant of a proper correction of Hadiqat al-Haqiqa; a correction that can take into account all aspects of this book and Sanai’s mental geometry, to provide the literary community with a text closest to the author’s. This issue has attracted the attention of contemporary Persian language scholars, hence remarkable studies in the field of correcting or describing the problems of this book have been done in the last century. In this study, the newest correction of Hadiqat al-Haqiqa will be investigated, and its weaknesses will be highlighted using the descriptive-analytical method and library resources. The necessity of the study is the need for both studying Sanai and his works in Persian literature and reviewing their corrections. It seems that in Yahaghi and Zarghani’s correction, using the method of correction in the form of the base manuscript as well as selecting the Manchester manuscript as the base version has resulted in some deficiencies in the corrected text, which will be addressed in this study in four general formats. Also, the concept of certain words, phrases, expressions, and couplets of Hadiqat al-Haqiqa will be clarified.