Vasukht (withdrawing love) in si-nāmeh of Amir Hosseini Heravi

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Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

Abstract

The 7th and 8th centuries of Hijri and the Iraqi style are known for the presence of famous poets. One of these poets, Amir Hosseini Heravi, is the author of several mystical poems. si-nāmeh is one of the important mystical poems of Amir Hosseini Heravi, which includes letters sent between a lover and a beloved. The twelfth letter of this poem is about the return of the lover from the beloved, which is considered a withdrawing love letter. Although withdrawing love in the meaning of flat has appeared in Persian literature since the 9th century, but some signs of this issue can be seen in the poetry of some poets of previous periods. In the present study, the author has investigated and analyzed the concepts of withdrawing love in the mentioned letter from Heravi's si-nāmeh using a descriptive-analytical method. According to the research, the 12th letter of the si-nāmeh of Amir Hosseini is originally vasukht to his lover. Turning away from the beloved, expressing the unfaithfulness of the beloved, threatening to separate and leave the beloved, mentioning the oppression and persecution of the beloved, and finally taking refuge in a bartender instead of the beloved and preferring drunkenness and ignorance are the most important elements of the vasukht mentioned letter. The reason for the existence of such a concept in Amir Hosseini Heravi's poetry can be analyzed in the tradition of letter-writing, which is expressed in the form of ten letter-writing and thirty-letter writing in literature. 
Introduction:
The 7th and 8th centuries of Hijri are considered important centuries in the mystical literature of Iran. The best mystical works were written in this period. Attar, Molana, Saadi, Hafez, Iraqi and... are the famous representatives of mystical poetry in these two centuries. One of the poets of this period is Amir Hosseini Heravi, who is considered anonymous compared to other poets of this period. Amir Hosseini spent the beginning of his life in the study of sciences and manners and after that in the path of Sufism and mysticism.
The mystical nature of Amir Hosseini Heravi is a romantic Mashreb. In the works of Amir Hosseini Heravi, like many poets of Persian literature, there are frequent expressions of love, love, lover, death, survival, journey, and verses addressed to the bartender, which express his mystical and intellectual thoughts. Some researchers in the field of the history of poetry and literature have expressed his smooth, simple and uncomplicated expression, and in this regard, they have considered him as one of the average poets of Persian language and literature. The reason for this is that Amir Hosseini Heravi is in a lower rank among the famous poets of the 7th century and Hijri, but he happens to have a higher position than many other poets. In this essay, the writer is trying to investigate and analyze the old writing in one of the 30 letters of Amir Hosseini Heravi and explore the reason for the existence of such a topic in Amir Hosseini Heravi's poetry.
Materials and Methods:
The method of collecting information in this research is library, data analysis method, qualitative and inductive reasoning method (from part to whole). This research is a descriptive-analytical type of research.
Results and Discussion:
Amir Hosseini Heravi has several mystical poems in which he has used many themes to enrich them. Basically, mystical literature has used many literary and cultural capacities to influence the audience more. One of these capacities is the depiction and use of Qalandari poetry and literature, as well as the introduction of romantic elements in mystical literature. Si Nameh is one of the most famous and heartwarming works of Amir Hosseini Heravi. Masnavi Si-nameh, which was written in the style of ten names common in the 7th and 8th centuries, contains love letters that are exchanged between a lover and a beloved, and the poet has tried to express mystical love and its different stages. The title of the twelfth letter from Amir Hosseini Heravi's book is "The return of a lover from a lover". The theme of this letter (as the title suggests) is the lover's turning away and disappointment from the beloved. This letter is all about turning away from the beloved. Since Vasukht belongs to the 9th century and later, the presence of such a topic in Amir Hosseini Heravi's poetry is interesting and worth studying.
Conclusion:
The subject of the 12th letter of the Masnavi is the return of the lover from the beloved. Vasukht is a type of poetry that is written in response to the behavior of a lover, and its origins are attributed to the 10th century and by Vahshi Bafaghi. In the word, vasukht means symptoms and turning away, and its subject is to express annoyance and anger towards the lover due to his oppression. In this type of poem, the lover threatens the beloved with separation and abandonment. These cases can also be seen in the twelfth letter of the Masnavi of Si Namah. The main topics included in this letter are complaints and turning away from the lover, mentioning the lover's infidelity and being everywhere, expressing the cruelty and torture of the beloved, threatening the lover with separation and leaving him, and finally, taking refuge in a bartender, drunkenness and ignorance.

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