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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۲۹ - تحریض سلیمان علیه‌السلام مر رسولان را بر تعجیل به هجرت بلقیس بهر ایمان / Book Four - Section 29 - Solomon, Peace Be Upon Him, Urging the Messengers to Hasten the Migration of Bilqis for the Sake of Faith
دفتر چهارم - بخش ۳۶ - آزاد شدن بلقیس از ملک و مست شدن او از شوق ایمان و التفات همت او از همهٔ ملک منقطع شدن وقت هجرت الا از تخت / Book Four - Section 36 - Bilqis Becoming Free from the Kingdom and Intoxicated with the Yearning for Faith, and Her Ambition Turning Away from All the Kingdom at the Time of Migration, Except for the Throne
Bilqis's Spiritual Discernment of the Hoopoe's Message in the Masnavi
دفتر چهارم - بخش ۴۲ - بقیهٔ قصهٔ دعوت رحمت بلقیس را / Book Four - Section 42 - The Rest of the Tale of the Invitation of Mercy to Bilqis

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Bilqis's Abandonment of Her Kingdom and Attachment to the Throne in the Masnavi

In Book 4 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, Queen Bilqis's response to Prophet Solomon's divine summons illustrates the transformative power of spiritual love, alongside the stubbornness of residual worldly attachments. Resolving to leave her kingdom for the spiritual path, Bilqis experiences a profound shift in perception: her immense wealth, pampered servants, and beautiful gardens suddenly appear to her as 'rotted onions' and a 'refuse heap.' Rumi explains that the dominion of divine love makes mere worldly beauty seem ugly by comparison. However, despite abandoning her vast riches, Bilqis retains a singular, painful attachment to her magnificent throne. Through spiritual insight—described as a path opened 'from his heart to her heart'—Solomon perceives her secret grief. He recognizes that while her soul has begun its journey toward divine Unity, the complete dissolution of her final worldly attachment will require time and deeper spiritual realization.

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