Mohammad Amin Ehsani estahbanati - Ph. d in Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

saadi is an ethic teacher and his job is to teach and advise and in this way he uses positive reinforcement more thannegative reinforcement. In other words, to promote virtues, he emphasizes on the virtues greatly than iniquities. So,most parts of his two moral books namely boostan and Gulistan devote to debating on the didactic literature andonly he points out to the vices that have a more destructive effect on the social life than other indecenttemperaments. saadi’s conception of an ideal society and desirable perfection is based on ethics and islamiccharacter. saadi’s purpose in training is to nurture faithful people that have self-confidence which are useful for theirfamily and society and themselves. Morality and moral training of people in society is the focus of saadi thoughts.Because, saadi due to the influence of his words in the minds and influences that he has on the mental and moralfields and behaviors of the people, can be most influential instructor and educational literature teacher among allPersian speakers. This paper aim to investigate the ethics in Saadi’s boostan and Gulistan and the library method andtaking note tools were used. The investigation represented: in the introduction of boostan, there is less talk about asociety that is full of ugliness and beauty, darkness and light, but boostan book is all goodness, purity, justice andhumanity. Also, Gulistan book is a collection of moral anecdotes, motto poems and advices that is in social trainingof people for achieving an ideal and peaceful society.in fact, gulistan follows a proper social structure.

saadi, morality, didactic literature, boostan, gulistan.