Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jan 2015)
COMPARISON OF MIND AND LOVE IN THE WORK “HADIGATUL-HAGIGA” BY SANAYI
Abstract
In Sufi literature, especially in the works of poetry there is a constant struggle between love and mind and poets give the main advantage to the love. One of such poets is Sanayi Ghaznavi. The work “Hadigatul-Hagiga” by Sanayi which we have today was devoted to issues beginning from Tawhid of Allah up to human and issues related to humanity, justice of sultans, various religious and social themes. One of the issues that Sanayi puts in the forefront in this work is the comparison of mind and love. After Sanayi many works were devoted to the debate of mind and love. However, in the work “Hadigatul-Hagiga” we see a different meaning between mind and love, which is knowledge (wisdom). In this article Sanayi's thoughts about mind, love and science are provided on the basis of samples brought from his work.