Critique of Manuscript Correction/ Among Fire and Water: A Critique of the Last Correction of Seir Al-Ebad Ela Al-Mā'd Masnavi

Sanayi Ghaznavi’s Seir Al-Ebad Ela Al-Mā'd is one of the most famous works in the field of Persian pedagogic literature. This remarkable Masnavi has been considered for many years among the most important sixth-century. However, due to some difficulties in reading the verses, there are still some vague points in this Masnavi. This paper attempts to refer to some of these difficulties in the text that occurred due to the imprecision of the copies or the mistake of the scribes, and based on the last print of the work, propose the correct form of some verses with reference to the oldest copies of the sixth century.