Homogeneous mystical themes in the poetry of Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari and Abdolrahim Bora'i

Mysticism as a cognition of the heart to receive the truth has always been a common bridge between mystics in every religion and language. With the advent of Islam, many mystics and epistemologists in their books have expressed mystical themes such as: houses of discovery and intuition, closeness to God, etc. Arabic-language mystical and Persian mystical writers have also dealt with these themes in the forms of poetry and prose. Sheikh Abdulrahim Bora'i, an unknown Yemeni poet - one of the seventeenth-century mujtahid scholars - in his collection of poems, and Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari, a mystic and poet of the eighth century AH, have mentioned many mystical themes in his Golshan Raz. The present article seeks to apply the mystical views and opinions of these two poets based on the American school of comparative literature, in accordance with a descriptive-analytical method. The results of the research indicate that the themes of the manifestation and grace of the Almighty, the purity of Hazrat Haqq from understanding and similitude, the unity of existence, creation and creation of the universe and the Muhammadan truth are common aspects in the poetry of these two mystic poets.