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The Five Requisites of a Pleasant Life in Jami's Baharestan (Section 10)
In this section of the Baharestan, Jami enumerates five conditions that together place 'the reins of a pleasant life' in a person's hands: (1) bodily health, (2) security or safety, (3) ampleness of livelihood (sufficient sustenance), (4) a compassionate and well-mannered companion, and (5) leisure or freedom from care. His claim is that whoever is deprived of even one of these is denied a truly pleasant life. The passage frames worldly contentment not as wealth alone but as a balance of physical, social, material, and psychological goods, a moralizing enumeration typical of Persian didactic prose. Understanding this specific five-part scheme requires reading the excerpt itself, which is why the excerpt is a prerequisite for the concept.
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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course