Mystical Symbols: Fayz & Shabistari on Face, Hair, Lip, Line, Wine, Eye, Mole, Saqi, Ruin

• Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Co-host: Dr. Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Persian poetry and mysticism reach a profound philosophical depth in Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Mishwāq, where he interprets symbols such as face and tress, wine and cupbearer, mole and eye, clarifying the metaphysics of Divine Beauty, Majesty, and multiplicity and unity, and illustrating these symbols using Shaykh Mahmoud Shabistari’s verses in his Gulshan-i Rāz (The Rose Garden of Mystery). Fayz Kashani and Shabistari symbolically present the world itself as a winehouse of divine love, and the seeker is invited to transcend selfhood through intoxication, ruin (kharābāt), and self-transendence (fanāʾ).

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Guiding Questions:

1. How do the symbols discussed in this video reshape our understanding of divine beauty and concealment?
2. Why did the mystics use such symbols?
3. Can the idea of kharābāt (ruin) be understood as an ethical transformation rather than escapism?

 

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