The duplicity of the "Ego" and the "Other" as symbolized in Sufi nature poems


Abstract in English

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 thinking 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.

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