Literary works are of special importance in terms of referring to historical events and reflecting social, political and cultural situations and understanding the way of thinking and psychology of people, and besides historical sources, which are direct sources, they are considered indirect sources. Just where historians have kept silent in reporting historical events, poets and writers have taken over their duty and pointed to those events explicitly or ironically, and this doubles the importance of those works. The purpose of this article is to examine the views of the poets and writers of the Mongol period regarding the great incident of the Mongol invasion and their conquest of Iran, in order to reveal the intellectual, cultural and social decline of the Iranian society at that time on the one hand, and on the other hand to clarify the perception and type of reaction of the poets and writers to this national disaster.