In the epilogue of Subhat al-Abrar (Section 130 of Haft Awrang), Jami closes the book by first apostrophizing his own pen (qalam). He prays that its works may endure (damat asaruka), praising its musk-black script as a snare that captures hearts and its faint creak as a whistle that stirs the bird of the soul across the horizons; he even ranks its calligraphic lineage, calling it Wasiti in descent and Shami in trace as it carries the gift of Syria toward Rum.

The section then personifies the finished work itself. Jami greets it as a swift, sweat-dripping messenger (qasid) galloping in with a welcome letter, and as a newly unveiled houri whose stature the pen has clothed in a garment woven from the tresses of the maidens of paradise. By turning the mere act of ending into praise of the instrument of writing and a bridal vision of the completed poem, the passage enacts the conventional Persian epilogue gesture of consecrating the finished book, paralleling the closing conse...