Nur-ud-din Abd-ur-rahman Jami - Salaman & Absal - 1859

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NÚRUDDÍN ABDURRAHMAN, Son of Maulána Nizamuddin1 Ahmed, and descen­ded on the Mother’s side from One of the Four great “FATHERS” of Islamism, was born A.H. 817, A.D. 1414, in Jam, a little Town of Khorasan, whither (according to the Heft Aklím — ”Seven Climates”) his Grandfather had migrated from Desht of Ispahan, and from which the Poet ultimately took his Takhalus, or Poetic name, JÁMI. This word also signifies “A Cup;” wherefore, he says, “Born in Jam, and dipt in the “Jam” of Holy Lore, for a double reason I must be called JÁMI in the Book of Song.” He was celebrated afterwards in other Oriental Titles — “Lord of Poets” — “Elephant of Wisdom,” &c., but often liked to call himself “The Ancient of Herat,” where he mainly resided.

When Five Years old he received the name of Núruddín — the “Light of Faith,” and even so early began to show the Metal, and take the Stamp that dis­tinguished him through Life. In 1419, a famous Sheikh, Khwájah Mehmed Parsa, then in the last year of his Life, was being carried through Jam. “I was not then Five Years old,” says Jámi, “and my Father, who with his Friends went forth to salute him, had me carried on the Shoulders of one of the Family and set down before the Litter of the Sheikh, who gave a Nosegay into my hand. Sixty years have passed, and methinks I now see before me the bright Image of the Holy Man, and feel the Blessing of his Aspect, from which I date my after Devotion to that Brotherhood in which I hope to be enrolled.”

So again, when Maulána Fakhruddín Loristani had alighted at his Mother’s house — “I was then so little that he set me upon his Knee, and with his Fingers drawing the Letters of ‘ALI’ and ‘OMAR’ in the Air, laughed delightedly to hear me spell them. He also by his Goodness sowed in my Heart the Seed of his De­votion, which has grown to Increase within me — in which I hope to live, and in which to die. Oh God! Dervish let me live, and Dervish die; and in the Company of the Dervish do Thou quicken me to Life again!”

Jámi first went to a School at Herát; and afterward to one founded by the Great Timúr at Samarcand. There he not only outstript his Fellows in the very Encyclopædic Studies of Persian Education, but even puzzled the Doctors in Logic, Astronomy, and Theology; who, however, with unresenting Gravity welcomed him — “Lo! a new Light added to our Galaxy!” — In the wider Field of Samar­cand he might have liked to remain; but Destiny liked otherwise, and a Dream recalled him to Herat. A Vision of the Great Safi Master there, Mehmed Saaduddín Kaschgari, of the Nakhsbend Order of Dervishes, appeared to him in his Sleep, and bade him return to One who would satisfy all Desire. Jámi went back to Herat; he saw the Sheikh dis­coursing with his Disciples by the Door of the Great Mosque; day after day passed by without daring to present himself; but the Master’s Eye was upon him; day by day draws him nearer and nearer — till at last the Sheikh announces to those about him — “Lo! this Day have I taken a Falcon in my Snare!”...

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