Abstract

Among gnostic collections of poems, Gulshan raz enjoys particular fame and acceptance, but what is the reason behind it? What is the secret of this book? Those who have dealt with the literary aspects of Gulshan raz have hardly ever been able to justify its reputation and have failed in revealing the secret behind this collection of poems. The writer of this paper believes that in order to discover it, one must deal with the whatness of gnostic experience following a phenomenological approach and ignoring certain expressions involved in Gulshan raz. Accordingly, two types of experience can be distinguished from each other in this work: one is related to the knowledge of mysteries and ontological unity, which involves the secrets of the verses of Gulshan raz from its beginning to its middle, and the other is related to the knowledge of gnostic intuitions and loving states pertaining to the secrets of its final verses.