Mystical Aspects of Modesty in Sham’s Lyrics

Modesty is a very important and outstanding feature in religious and cultural features as well as one of the deserved and significant explanations in mystical topics that attributing that both the Almighty and human being is true. For the high position that this feature has in the spiritual sublimity and divine knowledge, it has been attractive for mystics. The paper that is conducted via descriptive and analytic method studies over the mystical aspects of modesty from Rumi’s standpoint through his lyrics in addition to an investigation of modesty in the Koran and Sunnah and various mystical attitudes. The study shows that in spite of the emphasis, the earlier mystics had on observing modesty in every steps of spiritual journey and some of them consider it as the disciples’ mood, the concept and intake of Rumi out of that is very different from others. He does not deem it necessary sometimes for love that in his opinion and some other mystics is the extreme proximity with the Almighty.