Pathological Study of the Religious War in Mathnawi

Abstract

One of the causes of war and bloodshed over many centuries is the disparity of religions and religious wars. The Rumi with praiseworthy skill, scientifically and principally, explains the causes of the emergence of these wars and the ways of infiltration and the ways of dealing with them in the form of two fascinating and comprehensible stories. Rumi in two stories: "The king of Judah who killed Nazarene with passion" and "The other king of Judah who tried to destroy the religion of Jesus" introduces two models of hard and soft war to root out sectarian and religious wars from the standpoint of world principles and politic techniques. In this research, the following items were investigated by the techniques of psychological operations (soft war) and hard one: «1) - characteristics of hard and soft war, 2) -the factors of creating war from Rumi's viewpoint, 3) -the psychological operations tool (soft power) and soft threat, 4) -the tool of hard war, 5) -the components of soft war in sectarianism and the creation of proxy war. The result is that Rumi, as an expert and experienced politician, has been rooting and discovering why and how these wars and their continuity throughout the ages rang the bell to prevent the destruction of religion and the influence of demons in the world of politics and power over the centuries.

Keywords

• molavi
• world peace
• politics
• religious wars
• hard and soft war