The effectiveness of meaning and purpose in positivist psychology according to Seligman and its adaptation to Attar's poems

Positive psychology is one of the newest branches of psychology. This particular field of psychology focuses on human success. While many other branches of psychology focus on abnormal and disordered behaviors. Positive Psychology focuses on helping people to live happily and satisfactorily and purposefully. This approach emphasizes the effect of purpose in life and living a meaningful life - which is beyond the good life - and considers it as one of the principles of happiness. Seligman is a psychoanalyst who in the theory of positivism pursues the goal of flourishing a purposeful and valuable life by creating conditions that nurture and enhance human capabilities. He is for people who do not know their abilities and capabilities. Provides advice and strategies for creating a meaningful and purposeful life that can also be explored in the field of mysticism. Scholars of literature and mystical literature using educational and religious teachings that are related to the psyche and interior of human beings. By cultivating the growth of human capabilities and virtues, they try to change human states, from contradictions and conflicts, and prepare the ground for human flourishing in different stages of life and create purpose and meaning in human evolution and valuable life. This article, using a descriptive-analytical method and using religious teachings, examines Attar's poems and adapts them to the theory of semantics in positivist psychology in providing ways to achieve peace and mental security of contemporary man. Attar and Seligman's human mission is to be a beacon for themselves and a seeker of light in their being. The seeker tries to know the meaning of life and to reach the core of his existence, to understand the passion and intoxication of existence, and this means to achieve genuine happiness and well-being that makes a purposeful person feel calm, secure and valuable.