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سبحة الابرار / Subhat al-Abrar (The Rosary of the Pious)

Subhat al-Abrar (سبحة الابرار)

Subhat al-Abrar (The Rosary of the Pious) is the fourth masnavi within Jami's Haft Awrang. Composed in a distinctive short meter, it is structured as a chain of chapters — each likened to an عقد (knot/bead of a rosary) — where a unit treats a spiritual station or virtue (repentance, fear and hope, contentment, freedom/حریت, chivalry/فتوت, sincerity/صدق, generosity, humility, forbearance, and others) and closes with a مناجات (supplication) that carries the seeker from one station to the next.

The numbered بخش sections titled 'مناجات در انتقال از ...' (e.g., from Freedom to Chivalry, from Chivalry to Sincerity) are these supplications. They form a single sequential work and belong under Subhat al-Abrar as their immediate container, rather than being attached directly to the whole seven-poem Haft Awrang collection. Understanding this masnavi's overall design — the progression through spiritual stations (مقامات) — is prerequisite context for reading a...

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