Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 414D] مَمْزُوج

• Ṣûfism and Ethics.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 414D in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 649 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

649.

B 414D. Size 13 in. by 8 in.; foll. 224. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

Another Commentary (ممزوج) on the فصوص الحكم, [of Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240] slightly imperfect at the beginning. The author not ascertained.

Begins:

فهو يستلزم التعريف

Ends:

والله يقول الحقّ بلسان الكاملين و يهدى سبيله المتوجّهين اليه و الطالبين و هو الموفّق الى الرشاد و منه المبدأ واليه المعاد و هذا آخر ما اردنا بيانه و الحمدلله على التوفيق و الشكر لولى الحقائق و التحقيق

Plainly written in several hands, with frequent vowel-points. Corrections on the margin. A slight defect after fol. 54.

The vacant space at the end of the book (foll. 222-224) is filled with a miscellaneous collection of charms, mystic and moral aphorisms, and a Ghazal by ‘AṬṬÂR, which begins:

اى در درون جانم و جان از تو بی خبر

There is also added, by a different hand, a Persian poem by Shâh ‘ABD AL-RASHÎD of Jaunpûr:

اى خدا يك لحظه ما را رو نما الخ.