All religious thoughts, narratives and the prophets’ life stories are the subjects that are greatly given attention to in Persian poems and proses. Molana is among the poets whose literary works offer a special and exquisite beauty to prophets’ stories, and in this article, the Moses’ rod’s manifestation is investigated from Molana’s viewpoint point. In Molana’s point of view, miracles are not intertwined with superficial materials, but a gift of God toward the humankind, and therefore capabilities are not the issue for whom miracles are to be granted to.
Molana has made his mystical and loving thoughts understandable for his addressees by likening these thoughts to the Moses’ rod; Love,
as the Moses’ rod did with the sorcerers’ rope, swallows human earthly belongings. The union of lover with beloved resembles the Moses’ rod and their separation is like the sorcerers’ snake; The Sorcerers’ dragons symbolize human’s Concupiscence. Tranquility and restlessness of true lovers are likened to the rod and its dragonization. Flooding tears of beloved for being away from lover reminds Molana of the story of Moses in which the fountain was made to flow by hitting the stone with his rod.
Molana takes the view that universe has a frozen and depressed state. However, on the resurrection day, it will go dynamic once again and come alive. To verify this doctrine, he relies on the Moses’ rod, which is one of the inanimate objects that came alive and turned into a snake.
Love and love affairs between lover and beloved, expressing the qualities of God, universe, Quran, being surrendered, the similarity in outward and the difference in inward and mood changing of human at the time of hearkening, are the most important subjects that Molana has stated using the Moses’ rod as the symbol.
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