Dual variables of government consolidation and decline from Saadi's point of view based on Skinner's hermeneutic theory

Saadi is one of the poets who has raised the concern of governance in his poetry more than others. In interaction and confrontation with the rulers, he has presented several factors that are effective in stabilizing and consolidating as well as the decline and fall of governments. In this article, we tried to investigate the dual variables of the strength of the government and its decline and fall in the textual and extratextual layers of Saadi's works and his deviation from the common and existing customs with the model of Skinner's hermeneutic method in order to get a precise understanding of the foundations of his thought. This research was done with descriptive method and content analysis and hermeneutic study of Skinner's text. In this research, we came to the conclusion that Saadi, being familiar with the fields of theoretical thought, including the norms of the Qur'an and Hadith, and the social norms before him, while understanding the existing practical conditions regarding social political issues, had an avoidance of norms and in many cases, both explicitly and implicitly. He has put practical solutions in front of statesmen and nobles regarding the reasons for the fall of rulers and the reasons for the stabilization of governments.