A Supplement of the References and the Resources of the Poetic Testimonies of Mawlânâ’s Majâlis-é Sab‘a

Majâlis-é Sab‘a (lit., “seven sessions”), commonly known as his “sermons” is one of Mawlânâ’s three prose works (two others: Fihe Mâ Fih (lit., “in it what is in it”) and Maktubât (his “letters”) and Mawlânâ’s only surviving work prior to his spiritual transformation period during which his only concern was substituting his father and satisfying his great number of followers. Of course, these sessions were so interesting that provided the ground for Mawlânâ’s spiritual transformation which led to Shams-e Tabrizi’s favourite.
Mawlânâ’s poetic testimonies, within this collection, proves that he studied Divans poetry and enjoyed that poetic taste which was being used for increasing the effects of his words. Most of them belong to Sana’i whose influence on Mawlânâ’s later works is also obvious and noticeable. In this collection, there are some lyrics of Shams which were possibly added by the copyists of the later periods during copying the original text. Dr. Tofigh Sobhani in his correction and annotation on Majâlis has attained and introduced more resources of testimonies. The present paper is an attempt to regain and introduce these resources he failed to identify. In fact, this work is a supplement of Dr. Sobhani’s annotations in introducing the resources of the poetic testimonies of Mawlânâ’s Majâlis.