Perpetual Love; The Story of Saadi and Majnoon on Captivation and Love

The author of this study believes that the love sonnets of Saadi are highly affected and impressed by the imagination of Ozri Arab poets especially Majnoon on love and captivation. In general, if we consider the eminent Persian or Arabic sonnets of Saadi as a criterion for making judgment, it is revealed that the love represented in Saadi`s sonnet is in fact an Ozri love. The primary purpose of this study is to indicate some of the elements of such influences on Saadi’s poems attributed to Majnoon in terms of meaning and form. It can be realized that some of the poems of Saadi about Leili and Majnoon have been directly influenced by the Arabic poems of Majnoon; a point that none of the earlier researchers of Saadi have focused on. Subsequently, the study defines and explains the characters and various steps of Ozri love and its induction on Saadi’s sonnets. The author believes that “Hobbe-Ozri” (Ozri love) is in fact the main origin of many subjects and issues in Persian poems such as the purity of love, love before birth, love after death, union with God in the resurrection and so on. Hence, the knowledge of “Hobbe-Ozri”, and Ozri`s poems can significantly extend our knowledge of fundamentals of aesthetics in Saadi`s sonnets.