Jami continued to grow in further understanding of God through miraculous visions and feats, hoping to achieve a great awareness of God in the company of one blessed by Him. He was engaged in the school of Ibn Arabi, greatly enriching, analyzing, and also changing the school or Ibn Arabi.
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Yusuf and Zulaikha ( Joseph chased by Potiphar's wife), miniature by Behzād, 1488Īfter his re-emergence into the social world he became involved in a broad range of social, intellectual and political actives in the cultural center of Herat. He was known for his commitment to God and his desire for separation from the world to become closer to God often causing him to forget social normalities. Jami followed Kasagari and the two became tied together upon Jami's marriage to Kasgari's granddaughter. From there he sought guidance from Sa'd-alDin Kasgari based on a dream where he was told to take God and become his companion. He began to take an interest in Sufism at an earlier age when he received a blessing by a principal associate Khwaja Mohammad Parsa who came through town. He remained a staunch Sunni on his path toward Sufism and developed images of earthly love and its employment to depict the spiritual passion of the seeker of God. Jami is known for both his extreme piety and mysticism. He created a distinction between two types of Sufi's, now referred to as the "prophetic" and the "mystic" spirit.
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In his role as Sufi shaykh, which began in 1453, Jami expounded a number of teachings regarding following the Sufi path. His funeral was conducted by the prince of Herat and attended by great numbers of people demonstrating his profound impact. Although, the actual date of his death is somewhat unknown the year of his death marks an end of both his greater poetry and contribution, but also a pivotal year of political change where Spain was no longer inhabited by the Arabs after 781 years. His epitaph reads "When your face is hidden from me, like the moon hidden on a dark night, I shed stars of tears and yet my night remains dark in spite of all those shining stars." There is a variety of dates regarding his death, but consistently most state it was in November 1492. Youth seeking his father's advice on love from the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story "A Father Advises his Son About Love"Īt the end of his life he was living in Herat. The surviving son was called Zia-ol-din Yusef and Jami wrote his Baharestan for this son. Jami fathered four sons, but three of them died before reaching their first year. 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. He embarked on a pilgrimage that greatly enhanced his reputation and further solidified his importance through the Persian world. Jami was a mentor and friend of the famous Turkic poet Alisher Navoi, as evidenced by his poems:Īfterward, he went to Samarkand, the most important center of scientific studies in the Muslim world and completed his studies there. My pen name is Jami for these two reasons.
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Has drunk from (knowledge of) Sheikh-ul-Islam (Ahmad) Jam īecause his father was from Dasht, Jami's early pen name was Dashti, but later, he chose to use Jami because of two reasons he later mentioned in a poem: While in Herat, Jami held an important position at the Timurid court, involved in the era's politics, economics, philosophy and religious life. His father, also a Sufi, became his first teacher and mentor. A few years after his birth, his family migrated to Herat, where he was able to study Peripateticism, mathematics, Persian literature, natural sciences, Arabic language, logic, rhetoric and Islamic philosophy at the Nizamiyyah University. Shams al-Dīn Muhammad had come from Dasht, a small town in the district of Isfahan. Previously his father Nizām al-Dīn Ahmad b.