Attributes And Harms of The Spirit of Lasciviousness (Nafs-E Ammareh) in Rumi's Mathnavi And Methods Of Getting Rid of It

One of the strongest inner idols, which is known as the mother of all immoral and evil deeds and a very big and powerful obstacle in human life, is the "Spirit of lasciviousness", The subject of spirit of lasciviousness has a bold presence in the Mathnavi; but Rumi's method of expression in Mathnavi (association and brainstorming) has led to the dispersion of the content and prevented the reader from knowing his comprehensive thought about it. In this study, by collecting all the scattered verses on the subject of Spirit of lasciviousness in Mathnavi and analyzing them, it was concluded that despite the expressive confusion and scattering of verses, Mathnavi is a clear example of unity and intellectual cohesion and semantic coherence and in his work, Rumi tries to show a complete picture of his thought on the subject of "spirit of lasciviousness" as one of the key and repetitive topics of Islamic mysticism and ethics. This semantic coherence has caused him to not only mention the negative characteristics and attributes of the spirit of lasciviousness and bring about various moral harms and warn people to follow it,but also to point in ways such as: disregarding the will of the spirit of lasciviousness and piety, prayer and worship, starvation and hunger,, etc. to get rid of this seven doors hell in order to seekers and The captives can ascend to the highest levels and reach the place of annihilation and joiner of god by cultivating and refining this inner enemy.

Keywords:

Rumi's Mathnavi , spirit of lasciviousness (nafs-e Ammareh) , moral characteristics and harms , methods of getting rid of spirit of lasciviousness