The Analysis of Psychological Functions of “Mystical Love” in Masnavi-ye-Ma’navi Using the Positivist Approach of Martin Seligman

Mystical Love, as the vastest theme in Gnosticism and Sufism, takes a large proportion of Gnosticism literature. Among the ignored capacities of Mystical Love are the positive excitements hidden in this mystical moral. Many of these positive excitements are available in mystical morals and the Sufism conducts as well as in mystic journey. The present interdisciplinary study aims at analyzing the psychological functions of mystical “love” existing in Masnavi-Manavi with a positivistic approach in order to confirm the fact that mystical morals and concepts have paramount psychological capacities. At the end of this research, it will be determined that mystical “love” with its unique characteristics including unity of love, the lover, and the beloved as well as increasing the tolerance level through bearing the difficulties of love, can enhance the strength and the inner capabilities of the traveler of the mystic way and help him in the pathway of approaching to God. In lower stages, this love is comparable to “kinship and loving” as one of the virtuous capacities of human in positivist psychology.