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دفتر ششم - بخش ۱۳۵ - خطاب حق تعالی به عزرائیل علیه‌السلام کی ترا رحم بر کی بیشتر آمد ازین خلایق کی جانشان قبض کردی و جواب دادن عزرائیل حضرت را / Book Six - Section 135 - God Almighty's Addressing Azrael, Peace Be Upon Him, Asking, 'Upon Whom Among These Creatures Whose Souls You Took Did You Feel the Most Pity?' and Azrael's Answering His Presence
دفتر ششم - بخش ۱۳۶ - تفضل حق تعالی به طفلی کی در موج دریا از مادر جدا ماند و پروردن حق تعالی او را بی واسطه / Book Six - Section 136 - God Almighty's grace to the child who remained separated from his mother in the waves of the sea, and God Almighty's nourishing him without intermediary
دفتر ششم - بخش ۱۳۵ - خطاب حق تعالی به عزرائیل علیه‌السلام کی ترا رحم بر کی بیشتر آمد ازین خلایق کی جانشان قبض کردی و جواب دادن عزرائیل حضرت را / Book Six - Section 135 - God's Address to Azrael, 'Whom didst thou pity most among these creatures whose souls thou hast seized?' and Azrael's answer to the Presence
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Angelic Compassion and Divine Providence: The Shipwrecked Infant in the Masnavi

In Book Six of the Masnavi, Rumi uses the dialogue between God and Azrael (the Angel of Death) to illustrate the relationship between human/angelic compassion and absolute Divine Providence. When asked whom he pitied most, Azrael recalls being ordered to take the soul of a mother, leaving her newborn infant alone on a single plank amidst violent sea waves. Rumi highlights that while Azrael felt intense sorrow for the baby's apparent helplessness, this vulnerability was the starting point of unmediated divine care. This narrative teaches that what humans perceive as tragic abandonment is often a stage in God's mysterious protective plan, setting the stage for the child's (who is later revealed to be Nimrod) direct nurturing by divine command.

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