Investigation and analysis of freedom in Attar Neishabouri's poems

Attar Nishabouri's poems are full of humanitarian concepts which have a remarkable history in Iranian and Islamic mysticism and ethics. By intelligently understanding moral principles and adapting them to the life relationships of his era, Attar is known as the most prominent mystic who adhered to human freedom, explained and recommended it to humanity. The presence of a free man whose freedom has a broad meaning and an all-encompassing spectrum is intertwined with concepts such as love, blame, criticism and praise of the crazy, is a key motif of his major poems and is a way  for expressing his free-thinking spirit and his attitude towards this issue. Undoubtedly, in Attar's profound view of this matter, the choice of asceticism and escape from the world of materialism in order to gain freedom and liberty is considered an important indicator. As he considers reaching the position of closeness to God as pure servitude and freedom of the human soul, he considers the realization of this to be the process of training the soul towards leaving the world and avoiding worldly interests and acquiring moral virtues and living in love. What follows in this research is an attempt to explain the expanded the presence of the motif of freedom in Attar Neishabouri's poems using an analytical-descriptive method and a content analysis approach.