Abstract
Although Saadi Shirazi’s Būstān and Gulistān have long attracted sustained scholarly attention, his didactic poem Pand-nāmeh (Book of Counsel) remains comparatively less examined from a stylistic standpoint. The present study explores the dominant rhetorical and stylistic strategies that structure the poem, including aphoristic condensation, syntactic parallelism, antithetical construction, metaphorical imagery, allegorical reference, and Qur’anic intertextuality. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of classical Persian rhetoric (balāghat), the article argues that Saadi’s persuasive force in Pand-nāmeh derives from the deliberate integration of ethical instruction with refined aesthetic form. The analysis situates the poem within the intellectual and literary milieu of thirteenth-century Persian didactic poetics and underscores its integral place in Saadi’s oeuvre.