The preface is the beginning of communication and contact between the creator and the audience of a text and the writer or poet in this encounter expresses his personality and presence before the reader’s thought.
This research seeks to elucidate the preface of the Masnavi by analyzing – descriptive qualitative research methodology and the method of studying the text.
The results show that the structure of the coherent prepositions is combination of worship , praise and exhortation , and repeat this triangular interconnected structure has turned it into a macro modle of the standard for all Persian Masnavi’s that have preface ,which finds controversy from the early Masnavi to the next , but the components of this pattern are influenced by thr political , social , and the religious era of the epic , lyrics and mysticism of theme of Masnavi , the prevailing taste of time , and the attitude and personality of Masnavi sara is fluctuating.
More over , the lack of prefaces in some of the Masnavies is questionable , there are other   proverbial prefaces and some of them have coded startups.

Keywords: structure of the preface of the Masnavi, lack of preface, with preface, special preface, exhortational preface, proverbial prefaces .

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