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تحفة الاحرار / Tuhfat al-Ahrar (Gift to the Noble)

تحفة الاحرار (Tuhfat al-Ahrar, 'Gift to the Noble/Free') is the third of the seven masnavi poems that make up Jami's Haft Awrang, completed in 1481. A didactic Sufi work modeled on Nizami's Makhzan al-Asrar, it is arranged as twenty discourses (maqalat), each followed by one or more illustrative tales (hikayat). The discourses treat ethical and mystical themes — love, sincerity, silence, poverty, and the transience of youth — and provide the interpretive frame for the tales grouped under them, including this section's tale of the white-haired old man and the young beloved.

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