A Reflection on the Paraphrase of Yusuf's Quranic Tale in Mystical Text, (based on the most important poems of 6th to 9th centuries)

The story of prophet is one of the important mystical themes for the expression of concepts and elevated thinking about human being. Meanwhile, the story of Yusuf has got a specific property. Out of the life of prophets, the story of Yusuf has mystical aspects accounted symbolically or paraphrastically because of adventures that happened in his life. For mystics, the story stands as a spiritual journey of soul. This paper tries to analyze and criticize the spiritual journey of soul from the time he fell in the bottom of physical and worldly well to the time he reached to the top heaven in the form of Yusuf's story by the use of sixth to ninth century mystical poet's reflection and point of view, through the most important reflections by the characters and the events told in the tale.