ABROR'S SURPRISE

Alisher Navoi begins his great "Khamsa" with the epic poem "Khayrat ul-abror". The work was written in 1483 in the masnavi style and consists of 3988 verses. It was written in response to Nizami Ganjavi's "Makhzan ul-asror", but Navoi notes that he was also influenced by the works of Khusrav Dehlavi "Matla ul-anvar" and Abdurahman Jami "Tuhfat ul-ahror" when writing this work. The introduction of the epic consists of 21 chapters, the main part of 20 chapters (including 20 articles and 20 stories), and the conclusion of 2 chapters. The epic consists of 43 chapters in total. The work has a deep content, and to reveal its essence, it is necessary to begin with an interpretation of the title. In existing studies, the title of the work is interpreted as “The admiration of good people”, “The admiration of good people”. The adjective “good people”, in general, corresponds to the term “abror”, but it has a very general meaning, and the term “abror” is appropriated and cannot clearly express the special meaning intended by Navoi. Even in the expression of the title of the work as “Abrorlar hayrati”, the suffix “-lar” is superfluous, because the word abror itself is in the plural form. The Uzbek expression of the name of the epic is actually “Abror hayrati”, and since both words in this are special terms, they need to be interpreted separately.