The Similarities of Faraghi's Sufi Poems with the Sufi Poems of Rumi

Abstract

Every nation has its own writers, poets and thinkers. From those, Makhdoom Qoli Faraghi with his pure Sufi poems among the Turkmen people, introduced Turkmen literature to the world, and Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi, by writing his beautiful and pleasant Sufi poems, has ignited the sky of Dari-Turkish literature. Makhdoom Qoli Faraghi lived in the 18th century, he is always immortal in the hearts of the Turkmen people with his religious and scholarly poems. The topics of the poems of these two great poets are not only the same in social, moral, exhortation and political issues, but also Most of their poems were about religion and Sufism. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and review the Sufi and mystical poems of Makhdoom Qoli Faraghi with the divine and Sufi poems of Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi. In terms of meaning and content, the thinking and Sufi thoughts of these two great poets are the same to some extent, they have always called people for truth and religion and spent most of their lives calling and guiding people to science and religion. If Maulana had lived many years ago than Faraghi, Sufi poems of Maulana were still influenced Faraghi. For this reason, if Maulana's poems are moral and Sufi in terms of subject matter, and advice, therefore Faraghi's poems are not free of these topics. As a result, in this article, the analysis and comparison of the divine and Sufi poems of Makhdoom Qoli Faraghi with the poems of Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi were analyzed and the similarities of their poems were selected and analyzed in the form of examples.