Love in the Diwan of Feiz Kashani

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Learned people like Ghazzali, sanaei, A'ttar, and Mowlawi see love as a great divine gift to the lover that is associated with faith and effort to bring him closer to his spiritual beloved. Realizing the hardships of love including scorn, pain, suffering, and separation, Feiz sees the fulfillment of all obligations and midnight praying and asking as the only way for approaching God. To give the lover spiritual height, his love must be free of all material aspects. The present paper explores the differences between Feiz’s conceptions and those of other in his age.

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