A Comparative Study in the Opposite Effect between Two Odes: "The Heart" by Safi al-Hirani and "The Reed" by Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi

This research is a comparative study between the two odes, "The Heart" by the Kurdish poet Safi al-Hirani, and "the Reed" by the great Sufi poet Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, in terms of their symbolic nature and their formal and constructive characteristics, as well as the characteristics of their styles of treatment, on the basis of the relationship of opposite influence called poetic contradiction by ancient criticism, and adverse influence by modern comparative and critical concept. The poet Safi al-Hirani contradicted the poet Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi in his famous mystical poem The Reed, and although he was influenced by Mawlana in his poetic and ritualistic experience and in his Persian language, he altered the content of his poem and its central symbol, which is the reed, and replaced it with the symbol of the heart, and invalidated his invitation to the recipient in terms listening to the reed, while he tells the story of separation from the origin in a symbolic manner, by calling to listen to the heart and it is qualified in his view for this purpose, in his poem that he wrote in Farsi in which he takes an argumentative approach based on arguments and justifications , by defending the heart as the substitute symbol for the flute, inferring in its favor and strengthening its position, arguing in detail with the hearer, the recipient, within sixteen verses, with the intention of persuading and influencing him to listen to it, not to the reed. From Safi's ode emanates three epistemological problems, which need to be answered scholarly and analytically. The first of them represents its nature and circumstances, so is his poetic work considered opposition, contradiction, or imitation? We deal with this problem in the framework of the modern comparative concept, called reverse influence according to the French concept of comparative studies. The second, since Safi wrote this poetic work in the Persian language, he reflects Mawlana, specifically in this particular poem, which is like the constitution of Sufi love, and has acquired the status of universalism for centuries, so how can it be acceptable to make such a frank opposition?