The Symbol of Comb in the Persian Poetry

    The element of the symbol in Persian literature, especially in mystic rhymed literature has very usages. In fact, the symbol is included abstract and spiritual message which id hidden within common words. The symbol makes concrete mystic abstract ideas and includes gnostic intuitive inspirations from love mysterious world within the common words. Thus, it needs to interpret and construe. In the realm of Gnosticism, real lover always has illustrated along with virtual sweetheart features such as disheveled hair, eyebrow, and spot. In this semantic chain, the comb is nondisjunction of disheveled hair and has a symbolic meaning. Comb, on the one hand, is the symbol of the lover and his/her heart. That is the symbol of a lover who is mystic of lover’s disheveled hair. It tolerates the whole of disasters to smooth gnostic problems and approaches to the end. On the other hand, it is the symbol of God’s guidance and blessing. It is a sweetheart who makes comb as a tool for the guidance of lovers’ hearts and increases her coquetry and pizzazz and unseals problems of lovers. By encoding of comb symbols in Persian poetry and its double usages (symbolic meaning and its relation with cosmos’s hair, we can encode some literary and mystic ambiguities.