Journal of Islamic Mysticism

As a basic thesis of this article, Moral Life means a lifestyle and an individual-social behavior loyal to intuitions, principles, or well-known and acceptable moral norms. Based on this, the interpretation of a specific behavior or a stable way of life, which is a negation of the common perception of morality, and, at the same time, is presented as a phenomenon faithful to morality, is considered equivalent to an Inverted Narration of Moral Life. In the present text, while telling a story from RUMI's book (Fihi Ma Fihi) the inversion in the narrative of moral life will be analyzed in the style and context that RUMI is responsible for. With both the possibility of this story being fake or undocumented, the investigation of RUMI's moral intention, and the inverted interpretation of its consequences, can be interpreted with the following results: A) From the Narator's point of view, a flexible but universal Will, governs the actions of humans and this Will move arbitrarily. b) It is by assuming this Will that one can judge successful and unsuccessful people and put their actions on the seat of moral judgment. c) This Story is the cause of the denial of moral responsibility, and victimizes this responsibility in front of mystical behavior. d) This Inverted Narrative, specialy in accordance with the rhetorical goals of the Norator, is considered to be a stable reason in the anonymity of Mystic Morality.

Keywords: Fihi Ma Fihi, moral narration, moral responsibility, moral will, mystic morality

     

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