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یوسف و زلیخا / Yusuf and Zulaykha (Masnavi)

یوسف و زلیخا (Yusuf and Zulaykha) is the fifth masnavi of Jami's Haft Awrang: a long narrative poem in rhymed couplets that retells the story of the prophet Joseph and the love of Zulaykha, wife of the Aziz of Egypt. It is organized as an ordered sequence of numbered sections (بخش) — from Zulaykha's dreams of Joseph, her journey and marriage to the Aziz, the temptation and portrait scenes, Joseph's imprisonment, through to their eventual reunion. Jami frames the tale as a Sufi allegory of the soul's passage from earthly passion to purified divine love. Each individual section node belongs to this work, which in turn is one of the seven poems collected in the Haft Awrang.

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