The Symbol of Sun in Mathnavi

The present research is about the most important symbol in the field of thought and language of Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, which has been dramatically and questionably repeated in most of his works, especially Mathnavi, and deserves revising. Its reading and revising can provide new fields of research in the works of Mowlavi. The sun and the light have intertwined with religious, mystical, and mythical ideas and beliefs and manifested in a particular way in Mowlavi's thought system, what can be considered, in its turn, one of his poetic privileges. When the fundamental symbols of Mowlavi's thoughts are analyzed through a symbolic approach, the amazing depth of the particular thinking of this symbolic mystic would be better revealed; because a prism of symbols, tied to the sun, moves around this center and displays well its unitary idea. With the help of sun image, Mowlavi exhibits the hidden unity of this world's interior, and has resolved the internal and psychological conflicts using a creative and artistic psychoanalysis. The sun has not only been able to put the man mind on the borders of perfection and beauty, but also has improved his power, spirituality, hope and insight.