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Didactic satire can be considered as an important part of Persian didactic literature, especially after Sanai. This type of humor is often narrative, sarcastic, bitter, sometimes amoral, abnormal, effective and ultimately purposeful and meaningful. The intellectual infrastructure of didactic satire in Sanai's speech has been studied in present paper. Sanai believed in pure obedience to the Qur'anic teachings and religious guidance as the only way leads to this goal, but man is more interested to move arrogantly relying on his perceptual power. Since these senses are inefficient to obtain such knowledge, they result in the Man's misleading, although He still lives in the illusion of knowledge. So a dual and ridiculous status is going to be created. The didactic satire of Sanai was constructed on a narrow border of knowledge and an illusion of knowledge, and his main purpose of creating such humorous anecdotes and analogies was to boast human being his cognitive errors. So, it can be claimed that most of Sanai's satires were based on Islamic philosophy and his epistemological attitudes, and were established on his abundant criticisms and protests to the man's emphasis on his inefficient cognitive senses to achieve a perfect understanding of the truth.
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