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The Concept of Spiritual Rebirth through Self-Annihilation in Jami's Haft Awrang

In Section 166 of the Haft Awrang, Jami describes the infinite sweetness and depth of the discourse on love (eshgh), explaining that a true lover must undergo a form of spiritual death to achieve true life. He asserts that lovers who die before the Divine Beloved learn the true meaning of existence and are made eternally alive through the Beloved's divine breath ('تا نمیری نباشی ارزنده / که به انفاس او شوی زنده'). This mirrors the foundational Sufi concept of fana (annihilation of the self) and baqa (eternal subsistence in the Divine), emphasizing that spiritual worthiness is only attained when the individual ego is fully surrendered.

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