Levels of Suspense, and Fixation of the Concept of Eye-flirting in Sa di's Mysticism

Eye-flirting in Ghazaliāt of Sa’di has always been a matter of research because, compared to other Persian literary texts, Ghazaliāt is more prolific concerning the concept of eye-flirting. Nevertheless, most of these researches have been content-based and mystical. The present article, by adopting a narrative point of view, does its best to show how Ghazaliāt, through breaking the taboos, creates a suspense in which the reader finds the occasion to pose new questions that pave the way for the narrator to attain his goals. This is a method of narration in which the narrator at the three levels of line, Ghazal and Ghazaliāt, shapes different degrees of suspense that move towards different forms of taboo-breaking, but the tensions coming out of these suspenses, will decrease due to their interrelations, and consequently eliminates the perception of breaking taboos. The reader, in this way, will be finally directed towards one and the same philosophical or mystical meaning