Ethical Principles in Bidel Dehlavi's Ghazals

The Persian literature brims with utopian and humane topics which have given it a special place in the world literature. It enjoys different forms of poetry, including epic, lyric, elegy, eulogy and so on. Moreover, it mainly addresses utopian and humane issues, in particular the moral decency. Rooted in historical-ideological beliefs, ethics and its principles have attracted the attention of many poets and authors to different degrees. The poetic form also influences the manner in which the ethical and epistemological issues are addressed. This article seeks to study ethics and its principles in the ghazals composed by Bidel Dehlavi. Unfortunately, they have not been properly addressed in his poems, in particular his ghazals which are known for verbal and semantic complexity.