thematic analysis of one of the rumi’s poem on the view of halliday’s functionalism

this paper tries to analyze one of the poems of rumi in mathnavi (masnavi) book3, nicholson's version- with the title of “description some god's friends who are content with the (divine) ordainment and do not pray and beseech (god) to change this decree” on the view of halliday's functionalism. there are a lot of studies about mowlana's poems in different points of view. in this study we try to show rumi's thought and attitude by analyzing the poem on the view of thematic structure of halliday functionalism.