The Nature of Sufism and Its Language from the Point of View of Rumi in Masnavi

This research has been written in the review and critique of Shafiei Kadkani's views on mysticism and its language. In this view, mysticism is an artistic look to religion, and its language is poetry, and according to I.A Richards's classification, the literary critic, it is an emotional language, and it is a language without logic truth and false, and in contrast to the referential language, versus reference language, are considered to be a valid and empirical science and in other words, it can be acknowledged and denied, as in the experimental sciences. According to a study carried out in this study, which analyzes the content of Masnavi's verses and Rumi's way of expressing of the main elements of Islamic mysticism, Sufism cannot be explained except in the context of epistemology. In Rumi's view, Sufism has a look and an epistemic nature that its criterion, unlike the artistic look, is truth, not beauty, and the language of its propositions is epistemic and sometimes epistemic emotional and the criterion of truth in these, It is not an intrinsic and "honest artistic" type, but it is of an external and logical kind. In addition, Sufism, unlike art, which is tied to language due to communication, is not affiliated with language. Therefore, the mystic eventually prefers silence.