Fire and it’s Metaphors in Safi Hirani’s Poems

Abstract

Kurdish scholars in general and poets and mystics of Kurdish literature in the 18th and 19th centuries in particular have returned to Islam, Zaradashtayn tradition, Greek philosophy, universal myths, and Kurdish literature in order to understand the concept of fire. Safi is one of those Kurdish poets who have used fire metaphorically in order to reveal his ideas. In his literary texts, Safi has been able to express Meta logical themes through combining two contradictory elements of Fire and Water to expel his hidden inner feelings and emotions to the reader. Through using the concept of fire, he managed to gather the contradictory ideas of purity and filthy. In addition to that, the poet has also benefited from myths to support his claims and to connect fire with other concepts such as Ishik, God, Hell, Heaven, Nafs, Nur, Original Existence, and Unoriginal Existence. Through the use of these metaphors, he could create different meanings.