Spiritual Freedom and the Ways to its Achievement in Poetry of Mikhaeel Naeeme

Freedom is one of the most beautiful words in human glossary and in West it means behavior control with people's complete will and volition, to which in Islamic thought the rights of God being added. Freedom is two type: 1) social freedom which means that human is free in his/her social and individual behaviors, meaning that other people don’t prevent him/her to reach to his/her goals by imprisoning him/her and/or exploiting him/her. 2) spiritual freedom which refers to human spirit so that the spirit be free from negative and deterrent obstacles. There is a strong relationship between spiritual freedom, the one who achieves spiritual freedom also will realized the social one, too. In this article we study the theories of Naeeme about Utopian or ideal freedom and the ways which he guides liberal human to achieve them in his works in an analytical-descriptive way. We try to illustrate the obstacles of reaching freedom. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the quality of Naeeme's suggestion for reaching spiritual freedom. We chose this topic according to the high position of Naeeme and his valuable views concerning human and his freedom and his guidance toward desirable moral traits and his prevention from moral vices and his specific attention to freedom.