Rumi's Happiness Theory in Fihi Ma Fihi

The prevalence of Positive Psychology changed the attitude of psychological studies from thinking to negative aspects of human psyche to contemplating its positive aspects. Thus, psychologists reanalyzed the concept of Happiness, as an effective factor in success and mental health, and the curiosity in finding causes of Happiness opened a new and broad chapter in their research. Eventually, several factors such as Religious beliefs, Self-esteem, Health, Economic situation and so forth introduced as happiness-causing factors. This issue, attracted the attention of the writer of this article to one of the happiest literary and mystical characters, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, and led him to figure out Rumi’s Happiness theory and discovering Happiness-causing factors in his thoughts and books based on content analysis method. The result of this study was as following: 1) in Fihi Ma Fihi, Rumi theoretically paid attention to the happiness and happiness-causing factors; 2) most of the Rumi’s Happiness theory was based upon communication between happiness and Divine Will or fear of the God (Isticraq) which both could be interpreted in the field of interpreting experience; 3) based on his thought, Rumi believed Happiness is a reflecting concept that even could be reread from the social capital perspective, which can consolidates social health. Overlapping some of Rumi’s happiness-causing factors with what today is introduced by psychologists, and is a valuable point that must be considered.