Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad

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Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad (meaning: the journey of the servants in return to origin) is a poetry book of Sanai in form of Masnavi which moral issues are discussed. Its release date back to year 1131 AD (525 AH). In this book, Sanai discusses the creation of man and psyches and wisdoms through allegory. The Masnavi of Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad was composed in same rhythm of Hadiqat ul-Haqiqah and is about 800 verses long.[1][2]

Sanai composed Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad in Sarakhs, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran and finished it with the praise of someone called Abu al-Mafakher Saif al-Din Muhammad ibn Mansour, the judge of Sarakhs.[3]

Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad is in fact an allusion to the journey of the mystic in the authorities of annihilation. During it, the poet narrates the story of the passage of the soul, guiding by intellect through the levels and curtains of a Neoplatonism world.[4] Similar to this work in European literature is Dante's Divine Comedy. In pre-Islamic literature,[5] the text of Book of Arda Viraf depicts a enduring theme of spiritual journey to the other world.[6][7]

In the three transformations of Sanai's life, Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad is at the stage where Hakim Sanai is transferred from the pure poetic period of his youth to the Sufism period.[8] This work was amendmented and re-published by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi under the name "Masnavis of Sanai"[9][10] in 1969 with association of University of Tehran Press.[11]

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  3. ^ "حيكم ابوالمجد مجدود بن آدم سنايي" (in Persian). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
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  7. ^ "سیر العباد الی المعاد by سنایی غزنوی" (in Persian). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  8. ^ جوکار, نجف; رزمجو بختیاری, شیرین; خلیلی جهرمی, الهام. بررسی تطبیقی سیرالعباد سنایی و مصیبت‌نامه عطار. در: مجله شعرپژوهی (بوستان ادب). ۲۳. دانشگاه شیراز (۱۳۹۴). p. ۸۴.
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  10. ^ "مثنویهای حکیم سنایی بانضمام شرح سیر العباد الی المعاد - کتابخانه دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)" (in Persian). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  11. ^ "لزوم تصحیح انتقادی دیوان سید حسن غزنوی" (in Persian). Retrieved 20 October 2020.