Motivational Realism for Satire and Humor in Maulana's Masnavi

The main and rudimentary purpose of composing Masnavi (rhyming couplets) by Maulana was training and education. As a realistic poet, he was highly impressed by his surrounding happenings that he has applied them to explain the excellent ethical, mystical, and divinely points. Accordingly, he has best used satire and humor as undeniable realities and means of attracting the readers toward Masnavi.This paper seeks to define satire and humor by some experts at first and then emphasize the point that Maulana Jalaloddin Balkhi has accurately made use of satire and humor to teach ethics and mysticism according to the realities of society and true identification of his readers.