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

Subhat al-Abrar (The Rosary of the Pious)

سبحة الابرار is the fourth masnavi within Jami's seven-part collection Haft Awrang. It is a didactic Sufi poem structured as a string of numbered عقد (knots, i.e. the beads of a prayer rosary), where each عقد expounds one spiritual station or ethical theme — such as repentance, fear (خوف), hope (رجا), patience (صبر), and contentment (رضا / قناعت) — and usually closes with an illustrative tale.

This book is the structural and thematic container for its individual عقد sections. The section-level poems (e.g. 'The Fifteenth Knot on Fear', 'The Sixteenth Knot on Hope', 'The Eighteenth Knot on Contentment') belong under this book rather than directly under the whole Haft Awrang collection, since the sequence of عقد and their paired stories form the internal architecture of Subhat al-Abrar specifically.

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