Prescription mood in tales of Makhzan-al-Asrar

Didactic literature is one of the means of prescribing moral norms. The tale is one of the best ways to prescribe approved morals; Because the tales are taken from people's lives or are made to convince the audience. It does not matter if the characters are human beings or animals with symbolic roles; However, two clear points can be understood from them: First, the proposed ethics is endorsed by the author (And from there, one can find out what kind of moral tastes have been made by the author and his audience); Secondly, the ethics of interest in that period have not been thriving (Accordingly, the mood of the people of that time can be guessed.) In this research, the mood of the characters of all 20 stories of the book, Makhzan al-Asrar , Descriptive-explanatory method has been investigated. The study shows that a large part of these tales are related to explaining how people behave in a non-material world. After that, in the stories, the relationship between the people and the government is explained and lastly, people's relationship has been investigated</span>