Nur-ud-din Abd-ur-rahman Jami - Lawa'ih - A Treatise on Sufism

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Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (Persian: نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی) (August 18, 1414–November 19, 1492) was one of the greatest Persian poets in the 15th century and one of the last great Sufi poets.

Biography

His father was from Dasht in Esfahan who migrated to Khorasan a few years before Jami was born. Jami was born in a village near Jam, then Khorasan, now located in Ghor Province of Afghanistan, but a few years after his birth, his family migrated to the cultural city of Herat where he was able to study Peripateticism, mathematics, Arabic literature, natural sciences, and Islamic philosophy at the Nizamiyyah University of Herat.

Because his father was from Dasht, Jami's early pen name was Dashti but later, he chose to use Jami because of the two reasons which he mentioned in a poem:

مولدم جام و رشحهء قلمم
جرعهء جام شیخ الاسلامی است
لاجرم در جریدهء اشعار
به دو معنی تخلصم جامی است

My birth place is Jam and my pen
Has drunk from (knowledge of) Sheikh-ol-Islam (Ahmad) Jam
Hence in the books of poetry
My pen name is Jami for these two reasons

Afterwards he went to Samarqand, the most important center of scientific studies in the Islamic World and completed his studies there. He was a famous Sufi, and a follower of the Naqshbandiyyah Sufi Order. At the end of his life he was living in Herat.

Jami had a brother called Molana Mohammad who was apparently a learned man and a master in music and Jami has a poem lamenting his death. Jami fathered four sons but three of them died before reaching their first year. The surviving son was called Zia-ol-din Yusef and Jami wrote his Baharestan for this son.

Teachings

In his role as Sufi shaykh, Jami expounded a number of teachings regarding following the Sufi path. In his view, love was the fundamental stepping stone for starting on the spiritual journey. To a student who claimed never to have loved, he said, "Go and love first, then come to me and I will show you the way."[1]

Works

Jami wrote approximately eighty-seven books and letters, some of which have been translated into English. His works range from prose to poetry, and from the mundane to the religious. He has also written works of history. His poetry has been inspired by the ghazals of Hafez, and his Haft Awrang is, by his own admission, influenced by the works of Nezami.

Divan of Jami

Among his works are:
* Baharistan (Abode of Spring) Modeled upon the Gulistan of Saadi
* Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship) Biographies of the Sufi saints
* Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) His major poetical work. The fifth of the seven stories is his acclaimed "Yusuf and Zulaykha" which tells the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife based on the Quran.
* Lawa'ih A treatise on Sufism
* Diwanha-i Sehganeh (Triplet Divans)
* Tajnīs ’al-luġāt (Homonymy/Punning of Languages) A lexicographical work containing homonymous Persian and Arabic lemmata.[1]

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CONTENTS

PREFACE
TRANSLATION OF THE LAWA lH - 17
APPENDICES :
I. GHAZZALI ON TAUHID - 59
II. PLOTINUS - - 64
III. GHAZZALI ON MYSTICAL UNION - 70
FACSIMILE OF MANUSCRIPT OF THE LAWA lH (56 pages)

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