Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 18 2 2025 07 19 An Investigation into the Doctrine of the Perpetual Renewal of Exemplars and Its Threefold Levels in the Thought of Rumi and His Predecessors in Mysticism An Investigation into the Doctrine of the Perpetual Renewal of Exemplars and Its Threefold Levels in the Thought of Rumi and His Predecessors in Mysticism 191 212 29611 10.22108/jpll.2025.144002.1886 FA Moslem Abaspour PhD Student of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran Hassan Soltani Kohbanani Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran Rahman Zabihi Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature,University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran Journal Article 2025 01 20 The doctrine of tajaddud al-amthāl (the perpetual renewal of exemplars) is one of the fundamental concepts in Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism. According to this principle, the world is in constant transformation and renewal due to the divine attributes of life-giving and life-taking and the continuous theophanies of God. From this perspective, all beings—both in their substance and accidents—are perpetually being renewed, and nothing remains old. By analyzing Rumi’s Divān-e Shams and Masnavi through library-based research, we explore this doctrine and find that, from Rumi's viewpoint, the threefold levels of thought, state, and imagination within the human being are constantly renewed. These demonstrate that sorrow is not permanent. Drawing upon the Qur'an, Hadith, and the ideas of earlier mystics, Rumi poetically and allegorically articulates that these three levels continuously generate newness in the human being, leading to spiritual growth and transcendence. The doctrine of tajaddud al-amthāl (the perpetual renewal of exemplars) is one of the fundamental concepts in Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism. According to this principle, the world is in constant transformation and renewal due to the divine attributes of life-giving and life-taking and the continuous theophanies of God. From this perspective, all beings—both in their substance and accidents—are perpetually being renewed, and nothing remains old. By analyzing Rumi’s Divān-e Shams and Masnavi through library-based research, we explore this doctrine and find that, from Rumi's viewpoint, the threefold levels of thought, state, and imagination within the human being are constantly renewed. These demonstrate that sorrow is not permanent. Drawing upon the Qur'an, Hadith, and the ideas of earlier mystics, Rumi poetically and allegorically articulates that these three levels continuously generate newness in the human being, leading to spiritual growth and transcendence.

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