Investigating the characteristics of religious government in allegorical stories of Rumi's Masnavi

The issue of government has been and is one of the most fundamental human concerns in history. The necessity of government is obvious, which is also confirmed by human nature. The issue of desirable and religious government is one of the important issues in Rumi's Masnavi in ​​which Rumi has dealt with the issue in various aspects of religious, scientific, political, etc. languages ​​with allegorical and symbolic language. The present study, as a library-analytical study, has examined the characteristics of religious government in allegorical stories of Rumi's spiritual Masnavi. The surveys conducted in this study showed that Rumi, while enumerating the most important characteristics of religious government such as: justice, spirituality and servitude, perfection and virtue and wisdom and prudence, genero city and democracy, fight against domination and tolerance towards villeins he considered. The subjects considered the government as necessary, in this regard, the monarchy and the religious government, which is based on divine knowledge, self-construction and perfection, as a desirable and competent government to govern society, and the true ruler, according to him, is the perfect man or guardian of God. He knows in every age. In his opinion, the rule of the perfect man or the guardian of God is the royal manifestation of God Almighty, and the objective example of such a government on earth is the rule of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).