This research handles a group of Sufi texts about nature in the sixth and seventh century of the hegira. It concentrates on the symbols and significance of nature factors, such as birds, animals and places. All of that is to show the Sufi's way of th
inking when using such factors, because they all have one indication: "GOD". Therefore, we find the Sufi either eager to meet the nature and trying to unite with the soil, or having rejection and alienation of its sensuality as an attempt to leave it, but actually it is the only direction to go. On one occasion, he deals with it as a close person to whom he belongs because of its beauty which symbolizes the beauty of God. On another occasion, he abstains from and leaves nature because he is seeking to know God, to connect with God the creator and to go back to the first uterus through neglecting the time and reaching the future by reproducing the past.
This paper consists of the following elements:
A - Introduction: includes an overview of symbolism, and the most important patrons, and common goals
among them.
B - The symbol and symbolism in Western culture: the researcher reviews the multiple p
erspectives in the
definition of the symbol and its uses, and provides a definition of the code as mentioned in some
dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as to the point of view of some philosophers.
C - The objectives of symbolism: It is beyond reality and the achievement of other hidden meanings in
addition to their quest for the convergence of art with other cultural activities, literary, musical, scientific
and philosophical.
D - Symbolism in plastic art: the researcher shows the history of its inception, its currents and the most
important artists who have used the symbol and did not belong to it. In addition, it shows the artists who
have paved the way for it. Finally it describes artists who influenced this concept and developed it.
The contemporary interest has increased with the titles, so that some researchers
considered the titles as mini texts which contribute in forming a primary opinion that
motivate the reader and guide him to some meaning that the authors referring to
, and other
researchers considered the titles just a hypothesis for reading, not prejudice, because it
might lead the reader towards the meaning directly, and it might deceive and mislead him
as well, which make the creative texts poetically bigger and richer, and in both cases the
title remains the first textual episode that the reader’s awareness meet with the creative
text, regardless the type of the titles: realistic, equivocation, symbolism and others.
My choice has fallen into this research because of the variety that Ghassan Wannous
text stories’ have shown, which indicates the awareness of the writer about the importance
of the titles, and the role it might perform in serving the textual meaning, and this is what
this research aspires to approach and highlights.
