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

Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Free)

Tuhfat al-Ahrar is the third of the seven masnavis that together make up Jami's Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones); it corresponds to the 7-3 division of the collection. Composed in 1481 in the tradition of Nizami's Makhzan al-Asrar, it is a didactic Sufi poem built from a sequence of discourses (maqalat) on ethics, love, and spiritual conduct, each discourse illustrated by an anecdote or story (hekayat). The tale of Sheikh Ruzbahan and the widow who taught concealment (Section 23) is one such illustrative story embedded within this masnavi.

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