The Importance of Muhammad Ibn Qawam Balkhi's Description in Understanding the Contents of Nezami's Makhzan Al-Asrar

Nezami's Makhzan Al-Asrar is one of the poems which have always been the focus of commentators and editors. Muhammad Ibn Qawam Balkhi's description (8th century AH) is one of the earliest descriptions which investigated one thousand and three hundred verses. Despite some deficiencies, the description of Muhammad Ibn Qawam Balkhi has carefully explored many of the implications, verses, narrations, and astrological and medical terms. In the present study ten verses of Nezami's Makhzan Al-Asrar are discussed based on Qawam Balkhi's description and some of the semantic aspects or implications which may be helpful in describing the verses are analyzed. It is noteworthy that the meaning and interpretations of other commentators have also been criticized in these ten verses.