The Representation of Secret in Masnavi Manavi

Being one of the significant mystic books, Masnavi Manavi has a prominent place in presenting ontology of human being. As though by its revelation, one can reach many mystic and human concepts. Some of the important issues in this work include knowing the secret and secret keeping. The most profound place in Masnavi is where secret and secret keeping are mentioned. Molavi, himself as a secret-keeper is disgraced and his attempts for not telling leads to revealing the secret. The author of this paper by showing the relationship between secret and perplexity, certainty and the life of the prophets, and by bringing several examples from ManaviManavi has tried to present Molavi’s mainstream thoughts. This paper is organized in three parts: The introduction about the secret, the terminology of the secret, and the representation of the secret in Masnavi. The third part of the paper has explored Reed’s Letter (NeiNameh), secret knowers, secret deservers, the obstacles for secret revelation, and the results of knowing the secret and secret revelation