Azhar and Mazhar, a 10,612-couplet romance composed by Nazari Qohestani in 700 AH, devotes a substantial part of its plot to Mazhar’s battles to recover Azhar from Halil. This study asks how forced separation transforms private love into resistance against coercion, collective mobilization, and alliance-building. Using a descriptive-analytical method, it examines the plot, characterization, epic-lyric language, and the intervention of the king of Yemen. The findings show that Halil is not represented merely as a rival lover. Recurrent negative attributes such as tyrant, base, ill-natured, and deviant place his conduct within an ethical structure of injustice. Mazhar, by contrast, develops from a suffering lover into an active resistant subject: he refuses the imposed separation, persists through repeated conflicts, calls upon companions to devise a collective response, and accepts support from an external ally. The intervention of the king of Yemen changes the balance of power and turns Yemen from a geographical name into a narrative agent of assistance and justice. The poem’s hybrid lyric-epic structure supports this transformation. Lyric discourse establishes the value under threat, while epic diction, direct address, action verbs, martial vocabulary, and concrete imagery express the means of defending it. Resistance is therefore not an ornamental addition to the romance but the logical consequence of defending a bond violated by coercive power. The poem may consequently be read as an early Persian example of the conjunction of love, solidarity, perseverance, and the restoration of justice.