Nasser Khosrow’s Literary Ways in Using Verses of Quran

As the Holy Quran is an infinite source of ethical, human and educational thoughts and teachings, many Persian language poets and writers have benefited from this treasury. This mingling of the Persian written heritage with Islamic teachings has made it difficult to understand the heritage without being familiar with the Quran and Hadiths. Nasser ibn Khosrow Qobadiani is among the poets who have put their poetry at the service of promoting their religious and sectarian beliefs. In order to gain this objective and fulfilling the religious mission of his poetry, he has embellished his poems with the glowing verses. Given the religious background of Nasser Khosrow, his poems involve ethical guidelines and many pieces of advice. Having good mastery over Quranic concepts, he has adorned his poems with the holy verses, most skillfully and with the best method benefiting from full verses or part of them and sometimes using their concepts and meaning. This has certainly enhanced the effect of his messages. This paper uses examines the Divan of Nasser Khosrow and, using statistical tables, analyzes different types of reflection of the Quran’s verses in his poems. It will also be shown that Nasser Khosrow’s main reasons for using verses of the Quran include his mental and language association with the Holy Book and his efforts to explain his objectives and thought using the influence and status of the Quran among Muslims. This way, he directs the reader’s attention to the need to accept his ideas because they actually originate from the Quran and are somehow a poetic expression of the concepts.