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

سبحة الابرار (Subhat al-Abrar, the Rosary of the Pious) is the fourth masnavi of Jami's Haft Awrang. It is a didactic poem structured as a string of forty عقد (knots, like beads on a prayer-rosary), each of which develops an ethical or mystical theme illustrated with short anecdotes, with مناجات (supplications) interspersed between the knots. Its subjects include repentance, modesty, forbearance, spiritual chivalry (futuwwah), cheerful speech, and — in the closing fortieth knot — an appeal to readers to look upon the work with compassion. This masnavi is the immediate structural container for its individual knot-sections and framing supplications, which at present attach directly to the whole Haft Awrang collection rather than to the specific work they belong to.

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