ABSTRACT
The two major features that have supported the widespread popularity of poetry have always been language that shares thoughts and knowledge and the rhythm and rhyme captured in the lines of the poem that help commit poetry to memory, i.e. the prosody of a composition. The Chishti Sufis believed that for worship to be meaningful, unconditional love and devotion to God must go hand in hand with the ritual observations of the Islamic Sharia tenets. The study of the prosody of a poetic composition is as important for the scholars of Indian masnavi literature as the knowledge of the rhythm cycle is for the scholars of the Indian classical music based on raga and tala. The feature that distinguishes the stanzas of Candayan from the subsequent masnavis is the rubric, literally the text in red.
