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Consecration of the Completed Book through Quranic and Prophetic Blessing in Section 62

In the epilogue of Section 62, Jami stages the completion of his book as a sacred event rather than a mere ending. The pen falls silent in obedience to the maxim jaffa al-qalam ('the pen has dried'), and the closing turns to prayer: a blessing rises from the Umm al-Kitab (Mother of the Book), the trustworthy Spirit Gabriel opens his hands in amin, and the highest heaven scatters the Pleiades like a rosary over the finished work.

Jami then sanctifies the book by likening it to the healing scripture (shifa-nama) of Jesus and the illustrated pen of Mani, and by calling it a bud from the garden of grace and a rose from the garden of mystery. The section thus converts the conventional poetic close into an act of consecration in which the completed poem is blessed by Quranic, prophetic, and cosmic figures.

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