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Jami's Allegory of Spiritual Remembrance and the Creation of Paradise's Trees in Subhat al-Abrar

In Section 130 of Subhat al-Abrar (part of Haft Awrang), Jami elaborates on the famous prophetic tradition (hadith) where the Prophet Muhammad meets Abraham during the Night Journey (Mi'raj). Abraham describes Paradise as a fertile but barren plain whose trees are planted through the recitation of Islamic formulas of remembrance (dhikr): Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar. Jami provides a profound metaphysical commentary on this narrative, explaining how these transient, fleeting spoken words ('aradh-e fani) are transformed by divine creative power (khallaqi) into eternal, spiritual substances (jawahir-e baqi) that manifest visually as fruit-bearing trees in the celestial realm.

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