The Allegorical Types in Masnavi "Al-Ma'nawiyah Al-Khafi" by Ibrahim Golshani Bardaei

To understand mystical works, which are often the mystical experiences and teachings of mystical poets, imagination forms play an important role and are an integral part of mystical works and their creators , in order to bring the level of public awareness closer to the educational concepts of these works, have easily used the anecdotes, stories, proverbs, allegorical and cryptic stories for their image and reasoning, justification of their claims and sayings so that they are easily understood, imagined and accepted by people. The mystical Masnavi "Al-Ma'nawiyyah Al-Khafiya" composed by Sheikh Ibrahim Golshani Barda'i is one of these works that has just been corrected. The poet is one of the great Sufis and followers of the Azerbaijani Tariqat (path) in the ninth century AH, and his Masnavi is similar to Rumi's spiritual Masnavi. The research of this 35,000-verse Masnavi includes the study of all kinds of allegorical tricks such as allegorical stories, parables, exemplum, symbols, myths, method of equation, allegorical metaphors, and Qur'anic allegories that the poet has explained to the audience to understand the direct effect of self, sensuality, womanizing, fame seeking, long desire, changing destiny, and so on. The authors pointed out that fictional allegory is the most common type of allegory in this Masnavi. This research has been done by data and library analysis.