Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 129]

• Ṣûfism and Ethics. 
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 129 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 691 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

691.

B 129. Size 8^1/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 69. Twenty-three lines in a page.

A Commentary (by قوله ) on a mystic Ḳaṣîdah, the beginning, rhyme, and author of which have not been ascertained.

Plainly written, on European paper, of the twelfth century. The words of the poem to be explained are often omitted.

Begins:.. اى اغنيت من حاجتى الى السكر من جهة الافاقة الخ. The next paragraph begins:وراءَ بمعنى فوق و السكينة الطمانينة الخ ; the following, مشهدى من الاشهاد الخ ; etc.

The last gloss is : التذكار بمعنى الذكر الخ ; and the book concludes : هذا آخر ما ايراده اردناه فى هذا المختصر من شرح القصيدة بعون الله الخ.