Love towards an Eternal Source of Inspiration [Imam Ali (PBUH)] in Toqra's Mosammat

The present paper is a study of the long multiple poem by Toqra Mashadi, a prominent poet in the 11th century Hijra. This 134-line poem which is in the form of ‘pentameter Mosammat’ is included in one of his works called “Eteqadieh”, an unobtainable work not found in any of his works collection –not even in Iranian literature history. The whole poem is recorded in the manuscript of Alavi Manaqeb by Mir Hossein Ali Khan Talpour from the manuscript treasure and museum owned by Talpour governors in Heidarabad, Sindh. No study has so far been carried out on this work; the present research is the first, introducing and analyzing its lyric emotions. This Mosammat is in the honor of Imam Ali (PBUH) and enjoys deep and pleasant individual and collective emotions. In this research, we are attempting to investigate the poet’s emotions applying a content analysis approach.