The Backgrounds and Incentives of the Prophets,Union in Rumi's Mathnawi

The spirituality and nobility of Rumi's Mathnawi are indebted to different factors of which taking various and artistic advantages from the Holy Qurān can probably be considered as the foremost ones. Undoubtedly, a group of spiritual benefits and informative lessons of Mathnawi is taken through deliberation on the sayings and behaviors of the messengers of God mentioned in the Holy Book. The present paper tries, as far as possible, to clarify some of these ethical and mystical teachings centered on the theme of union of messengers of God. Hence, in the first section, the author has introduced and classified teachings related to the integration of messengers as the basic theoretical reference of Rumi. The subtitles of this section are such as: The integration of messengers in the source of call, the common duties and purposes of their prophetic mission and the sameness of the Holy Qurān with early scriptures. In the second part, through various subtitles such as the similarity of messengers of God in personality, invitation and goals are, the impact of the same subject on the Mathnawi illustrated. The Fresh matter of the paper is that the addressees of Mathnawi, through following Rumi's spiritual and instructive manner in using of the Holy Book, can realize the secret of the scriptures, then, by finding out the similarities and samenesses of God's messengers, the readers can attain.