Author

• Reza Rouhani

Abstract

Jalal Aldin M u hammad Movlavi, the great Sufi in our culture, has
discussed many points, one of which is the concept of freedom. Understanding
his views and thoughts in this respect familiarizes us
with most major lines of Sufi and Muslim thoughts on freedom. This
paper categorises Movlana’s thoughts on freedom in to three groups
and elaborates on them.
First, the paper discusses blocks that Movland has enumerated for
achieving freedom. Such blocks include external forces such as destiny
and fate as well as internal forces like ignorance, sense, wisdom,
imitation and so on. Second , the paper discusses ways of achieving
freedom in movland’s view. Such ways include love, obedience,
following prophets, death, and so on. Finally, the paper discusses the
most importand purposes that he consider for freedom such as relief
from agony, love, Cerlainty, and eternality.

Keywords

• Sufi
• Freedom
• Masnavi