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human · canonical The Masnavi itself — all 25,635 beyts across six daftars — comes from Ganjoor, the open Persian-literature corpus, and is frozen here as a read-only artifact. It is never edited, paraphrased, or AI-touched.

Verify it yourself: every beyt page shows its canonical citation (e.g. M3:1278), the verify tool checks any candidate quote against this exact text, and the whole corpus is downloadable as corpus.jsonl for byte-level comparison with Ganjoor.

ai-reconstructed · unreviewed The per-beyt commentary shown as شرحِ سروش was written by AI (Gemini), working from the actual recorded Masnavi lecture series of Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush — 131 sessions, archived by the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California. It reconstructs what he says about each beyt, in his voice.

It has not been reviewed or approved by Dr. Soroush. Every entry is stored with the confidence label ai-draft — as of today, no commentary entry on this site has been human-reviewed.

It is, however, checkable: every beyt's commentary cites the exact lecture session and timestamp (e.g. d1-s05 · 02:15:05), and each chip links to the original lecture page so you can listen to the passage it was distilled from.

Daftars 1 and 6 are covered systematically; the smaller counts in other daftars are beyts he quotes and discusses during those lectures. Original series: daftar 1 ↗ · daftar 6 ↗

ai-generated · labeled Any beyt (and each daftar's preface, and Soroush's commentary itself) can be rendered — translation, meaning, explanation, glossary — in 25+ languages. These are generated by Gemini on request, cached, and always shown with the model name and an AI tag. They are never blended into the canonical text or presented as human scholarship.