Examining love and its allegorical manifestations in Hakim Nazari Qahestani's ghazal

The great master and poet of Qahestan region, Hakim Nazari, with the help of his gentle soul, powerful thought, thoughtful mind and inspired by the spiritual worlds and the inner world, reflected his tender and subtle feelings in the form of sonnets. In addition to creating lofty and deep themes, the poet has achieved all kinds of literary tricks and tricks due to the need of the listener and embellishing the words. One of the aspects of Nizari's rhetoric and depictions is allegory and its sub-branches. The aim of the upcoming research is to investigate love, one of the most central mystical experiences of the poet with an allegorical approach, which the writer has analyzed in a documentary and library way and in a descriptive and analytical way. The main question is, what purpose did the poet of Qahestan follow from the use of allegory and its sub-branches? The findings of the research indicate that the poet used allegory as the most efficient way of similes to reveal complex meanings, especially his mystical experiences, and sometimes mentioned multiple allegories for the same meaning, and the purpose of that was to clarify the various dimensions of that meaning. . In his allegories in the realm of love, Nazari used more tangible and sensual personalities and images and created novel themes.Keywords: Nizari Qahestani, Ghazal, image creation, allegory, love