Analysis of “Farhod and Shirin” and the perfect human being

Tasawwuf is a teaching based on the religion of Islam whose aim is to purify a person in soul and spirit, that is, to raise the perfect human being. A person with a pure heart, high spirituality and who is mature in mind and body is a perfect human. According to the textbook the way of purification is one – overcoming the nafs. By nafs is meant, besides the appetite for food and drink, the sum of faults that stain the soul – ignorance, conceit, pride, greed, stinginess, careerism, anger; Navoiy says that if you subdue the dog of the nafs there is no hero like you. The obstacles in “Farhod and Shirin” – dragon, demon, iron man – are read as symbols of inner base urges, and Farhod’s teachers Boniy, Moniy and Qoran as guides who teach building love in the heart, engraving the heart, and breaking the base urges. In Sufism love means, besides affection, the sum of virtues such as will, patience, knowledge, modesty, justice and generosity, and it is the weapon for overcoming the nafs.