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The romantic gaze and perspective of lovers, especially in the tale of Layla and Majnun, is a recurring theme in Persian poetry. This article compares the poetic themes of Attar and Jami with the visual representation in Jami’s “Haft Orang” manuscript. It examines the similarities and differences in their narratives, focusing on the climax of the lovers’ meeting. Attar emphasizes the union and Majnun’s well-being, while Jami provides more details about Layla and Majnun’s eye contact and Majnun’s loss of consciousness. The visual representation captures Majnun’s arrival at Layla’s tent but not their meeting gaze. The research method is descriptive-analytical, using library sources and manuscripts. Findings indicate both poets use the tale according to their poetic styles, with notable differences in form and content. In Attar’s text, the climax is the union of the lovers, focusing on Majnun’s well-being and his loss of consciousness. In contrast, Jami’s narrative includes more details about Layla recognizing Majnun, their eye contact, and Majnun losing consciousness. Attar’s narrative concludes with a sarcastic conversation emphasizing Majnun’s self-sacrifice, while Jami’s narrative describes the lovers’ meeting until dawn and then returns to the metaphor of returning to one’s previous state. The visual representation depicts Layla’s tent in a tranquil space, surrounded by flowers and rocks, with Majnun hidden among the flowers. The painting captures the moment Majnun arrives at Layla’s tent dressed as a shepherd, gazing at Layla, who is caressing a lamb

Haft-Owrang is one of the poems of the Ninth-Century poet, Abdol-Rahman Jami. An important illustrated version of Haft Owrang is called Sultan Ibrahim Mirza`s Version that is a master piece of Miniature, which has been illustrated by the artists of Mashhad school. The story of “Saint Josef's Survival from the Well” is one of the Haft-Owrang`s subjects illustrated by artists at the time. This paper is going to compare Jami's poems with the paintings of "Saint Josef`s survival from the well", attributed to Mozafar–Ali by descriptive-comparative method. It studies whether the literary style and figures of speech of Jami have affected the illustration of this painting, and measures the percentage of this influence through quantitative scales. It concludes that 22% of paintings are in line with the poems, while 78% of them are not. This shows the freedom of illustrators in their act of illustrating, their independency towards the poems, and their use of imagination, environment, and visage in creation of these works.