The influence of the element of religious culture on prison letter

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It is obvious that the Persian poets and spokesmen, like other Muslims, have been affected by the divine revelations, the prophet's and their imams' words. Using these, they have promoted their language and have considered them as criteria for their eloquence. Citation to the God's, prophet's and the imams' words results in the satisfactory of the addressed people. Moreover, it causes the constancy of the poet's foothold.
The amount and kind of the usage from the God's words are not the same. Various factors such as cultural, social and political factors and, in some cases, the personal situation of the poets, have caused that some poets, like Molavi, compose spiritual Quran and some, like Anvari, MasoudSad and Khaghani use the religious themes less and some recent poets, like Nima and his followers, use them even much

 
less. The kind of this use has been various too. This variety and difference can be seen in the literary forms.
The prisoner poets, because of grief, hopelessness and the regnant despair of the prison, loneliness and being away from the dependencies of the normal life, had more appetence towards the God's and divine leaders' words. The divine word was the the final word. By using these words, the prisoner poet has been able to make his words holy and increase his influence, which provided a background for his rescue. In some cases, he has used them to justify his dogma.Another group of poets have used the God's and divine leaders' words to develop their social policy and ideology. Also some prisoner poets have used the religious themes to express the moral and human emotions and then the educational and moral recommendations. 

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Literary Studies of Islamic texts
Volume 02, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
September 2013
Pages 63-92

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