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یوسف و زلیخا / Yusuf and Zulaykha

Yusuf and Zulaykha

یوسف و زلیخا / Yusuf and Zulaykha is the fifth of the seven masnavis that make up Jami's Haft Awrang. It is an allegorical narrative poem retelling the Quranic story of the prophet Yusuf and his love with Zulaykha, read as an emblem of the human soul's yearning for divine Beauty. The work opens with a sequence of devotional and doxological sections — including praise of Jami's spiritual master Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar and the doctrine of spiritual poverty (faqr) — before unfolding the romance across numbered sections (بخش). It functions as the immediate container for its individual sections rather than having them hang directly from the whole Haft Awrang collection.

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