Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 401] مَمْزُوج

• Ṣûfism and Ethics.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 401 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 650 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

650.

B 401. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 300. From seventeen to twenty-five lines in a page.

Another Commentary (ممزوج) on the same work, by an unknown author. It is entitled خصوص النعم فى شرح فصوص الحكم .

The preface begins:

الحمد لله الذى نور اسرار اصفيائه ‘ بانوار فصوص صفاته و جواهر اسمائه

The author speaks of his predecessors in the following terms:

و اكثر من سبقنا من شراح الكتاب لم ينتهجوا فى اكثر المواضع سنن الصواب‘ ولم يميزوا قشره من اللباب ‘ و لم يتكلموا فى رفع ما يتوهم عليه من الكفر و البدعة الخ

A considerable portion is wanting at the end. A defect after fol. 150. The MS. is written by several hands, and the different portions do not always join exactly. The text of foll. 236v.-244 is repeated, with another commentary, on the following foll. (245-252).

Seal of Muḥammad Ḳuli Ḳuṭb Shâh, dated A.H. 1012 [=1603-04 CE].