Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) views language not merely as a tool for communication but as a social practice that plays a central role in representing, legitimizing, and reproducing power, ideology, and social relations. From this perspective, literary texts can be understood as important sites for the formation and expression of social and political discourses. This study aims to investigate how power and ideology are represented in Elahi-Nama based on Fairclough’s CDA framework and to identify the linguistic mechanisms that construct these representations. The research adopts a descriptive-analytical method within Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of discourse analysis.The data are examined with a focus on lexical and semantic strategies associated with ideology and power, including rewording, overwording, and semantic inclusion. Furthermore, the study explores the interrelationships among the discursive domains of power, violence, and social suffering as they are structured within the text.The findings suggest that Elahi-Nama is not merely a mystical text but a discursive system in which political power is represented through complex semantic and ideological networks. Power is frequently associated with violence, coercion, and their social consequences. In contrast, Attar’s mystical discourse functions as an alternative framework emphasizing justice, truth, asceticism, and ethical values. Thus, Elahi-Nama can be seen as a site of interaction between the discourse of power and mystical discourse, where Attar both reflects the socio-political realities of his time and critiques structures of domination while presenting an idealized vision of social order