A Glance at the Mystical thought of Erfani Heydari Wojodi

Abstract

Heydari is one of the few contemporary poets of Afghanistan who has a special place in the field of mysticism and Sufism, and by composing poems in various formats, especially in ghazal, he revealed his mystical thoughts. Therefore, the main goal of this article was to study his mystical thoughts (in five axes). The research method in this article is based on the objective, fundamental, nature of the data, qualitative and analytical-descriptive method, which has been used from the library data. The findings of the research on the five axes of freedom, world, self-view, death and ego show that: Heydari Wojodi with his extensive studies was influenced by the works of mystics, especially by Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi, and examples of his poems are also included in this research and is cited for reference. The mentioned cases have been studied not only from the mystical point of view, but also from the moral and social issues, which shows the diversity of themes in Heydari Wojodi's poetry. Examining the social dimension of his poems show that he was not only a mystic, but also a social person, who suffered from the anomalies and injustice that was going on in the country, and to fight against the injustice and condemn the anomalies, both with the language of mysticism and language of people.