Interaction between God and Man in Attar's Mosibat Nameh

Interaction between God and Man has always been one of the key issues in the field of religion and knowledge of God. Man develops his relations with God in the light of the culture in which he is raised, painting unique attitudes towards God on his own soul. Attar Neishabouri’s Mosibat Nameh is replete with tumultuous attitudes of human classes towards God, whose aims are to connect to God and know Him. The most important personages of this mystical work, i.e. mystics and lunatics, on the side of personages such as elderly and non-human creatures, are the careers of the latest and most different kinds of relations with God. The present paper is an attempt to explain God’s interaction with His human and non-human creatures in the light of two specific attributes of divine mercy and wrath regarding man and universe. Also attempts have been made to explain different kinds of love and imprudent relations with God in the attitude of different social strata. Also in the light of the entire movement of the universe under the divine will and mercy, Attar’s approach to direct relation of every human being with God and multiplicity of the ways of this relationship are discussed.