Adaptation of the Iranian Soldier's Bravery to the Spiritual Experience of Some Gnostic Features in the Holy Defense Poetry

What distinguishes holy defense from the other wars is combination of epic and mysticism (spirituality) and creating “mystical epic”. This article aims to adapt the efforts of soldiers of holy defense according to the Islamic Revolution poets with gnostic spiritual experience and explain and analyze their similarities. Study shows categories like austerity and strenuous effort, piety and simple life, consent and surrender, etc. that is the moral attributes of holy-defense soldiers, is not only similar to gnostic spiritual experience, but epic creators, in real meaning, were achieved practically by battling against their internal and external enemies.