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Aram A, Fazeli S A. (2026). The Inversion of Ethical Life in a Narrative from Fīhi mā Fīhi. JIM. 17(1), 163-179. doi:10.22034.17.1.5
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The Inversion of Ethical Life in a Narrative from Fīhi mā Fīhi
Alireza Aram , Seyyed Ahmad Fazeli *
University of Qom
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According to the definition adopted in this article, ethical life refers to a lifestyle and individual-social conduct faithful to well-known and accepted moral intuitions, principles, or norms. On this basis, the interpretation of specific behavior or a persistent practice that contradicts the common understanding of ethics while simultaneously being presented as a phenomenon faithful to ethics is recognized as an inverted narration of ethical life. In the present study, a narrative from Rumi's Fīhi mā Fīhi is presented, and the inversion of ethical life in this narrative is examined from a critical perspective. Rumi's moral purpose in presenting the story and its inverted reflection of consequences can be analyzed through the following results: (a) From the narrator's viewpoint, a flexible yet world-governing will rules over human actions, and understanding the mystery of this will is possible through intuitive and aesthetic means. (b) It is by presupposing this will that one can judge successful and unsuccessful individuals and place their actions on the seat of moral judgment. (c) The narrative in question, by dismissing human will, causes the denial of moral responsibility and confirms its dissolution into a fatalistic mystical disposition. (d) This same inverted narration, appropriate to the rhetorical goals of the orator, is considered a persistent cause in weakening mystical ethics.
Keywords: Mystical Ethics, Moral Will, Rhetoric, Fīhi mā Fīhi, Moral Responsibility.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: تصوف و عرفان
Received: 2024/08/12 | Accepted: 2024/12/9 | Published: 2026/02/27
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