A Brief Description of Common Provrbs (Ersal al Masal) in Newly Found Zahir Kermani 's Mathnavi

The work of the past is regarded as a heritage for the future. Cultural and literary works with mystic themes can be considered as the feeding material for people of thought and art and that's because these works are as bridges between the past and the present and increase our knowledge. The safavid era is not an exception to this fact. Zahir Kermani (1162)AH whose name is not mentioned in any books is one of the Shiite honors in Iran. His Mathnavi which is full of allegories and includes ten thousand couplets in Ramal meter is one of the least known works of 12 century. There is just one copy of it written in Nastaliq which is kept in the library of the parliament and includes 265 sheets. This work contains verse allegorical stories representing mystic, ethic and love thoughts. He has some works in spiritual and verbal devices such as allegory. In order to specify his style, we can investigate his inclination toward the book "Ersal Al-masal va al Tamsil". The findings show that some of the poet's allegories have been coined by himself and some of them are derived from the works of previous poets and are divided into three categories: first, the images made using imaginative figures. Second, Ersal Masal (common proverbs) and the third, proverbs or pseudo-proverbs. Comparing these categories shows that the most frequent kind is Ersal Masal(common proverbs) and the least frequent is pseudo proverbs. Due to the wide range of materials, we have just analyzed data related to Ersal Masal (common proverbs).