Abstract

Moral advice and teachings have always been amongst the foregrounded concepts in poetry and poets have made a lot of efforts for promulgating the moral virtues and each of them has dealt with it through a specific method and style. The quality and type of the poets’ moral virtues depend on the type of their teachings, thoughts and ideologies. Sanai and Saadi are amongst the ethics-oriented and ethics-centered poets. The essence of ethics in Sanai’s mindset is laid on the foundation of the religion. He considers going through sharia as the way to the perfection rank. The ethics intended by Saadi is the very general and mental ideals he has posited for the prudence of the individual and society and reaching felicity and ideal life. As a teacher of ethics, he has introduced the moral virtues and depravities based on the canonical teachings and invited his ideal human being to follow them so as to reach felicity and correct the human relations. The present article seeks comparatively investigating the ethical approaches in Hadiqah Al-Haqiqah and Bustan.