Symbols and Symbolical Archetypes in Masnavi-e Manavi

Symbol is an image that presents mysterious meaning. From mystical vantage point, a mystic is a being who finds beyond the outward surface of global objects a hidden world and who wants to uncoverthe ultimate truth through symbolism.The term "symbolical archetypes" is an expression that I use for those symbols that exist in the archetypes. Besides carrying rhetorical beauties, Masnavi is of symbols and mysterious allegories (symbolic allegories) and archetypes that Mawlānā has used to achieve his great goal, a goal which aims at securing human being's salvation sheltered by the Islamic attitude, thought and mysticism.In this article, the writer has surveyed some important symbols in Masnavi, then she has explained the term "SymbolicalArchetype"with a special focus on the Archetype of Death. In this article two kinds of symbolical archetypes have been studied.- Mysterious Allegory in the story of a fighter in a battle.- Mysterious Allegory in the story of a Jewish king and a woman with her infant. In this sample it has been shown that how a mysterious allegory can take place in the heart of this Archetype and how a symbol can reveal itself in the allegory.Since Mawlānā himself decided to explain the symbols in his subsequent legend, therefore his attaining his personal and private symbols hidden in Mawlānā's works seems to be available and obvious.