[IO Islamic 1430] نزهة الارواح

Nuzhat-alarwâḥ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1821 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1430 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1821

Nuzhat-alarwâḥ (نزهة الارواح).

The delight of souls, a Ṣûfic work in prose and verse on the سلوك or the spiritual path of the heavenly pilgrim, completed A.H. 711 (A.D. 1311, 1312), by Mîr Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî, with his full name : Rukn-aldîn Ḥusain bin ‘Âlim bin Abî-alḥasan (or alḥusain) al-Ḥusainî of Ghûr, who was, according to some authorities, a pupil of Shaikh Rukn-aldîn Abû-alfatḥ (died A.H. 735, 9th of Jumâdâ-alawwal=A.D. 1335, Jan. 5), the son of Shaikh Ṣadr-aldîn Muḥammad (died A.H. 684, 23rd of Dhû-alḥijjah=A.D. 1286, Feb. 19) and grandson of Shaikh Bahâ-aldîn Zakariyyâ Multânî (died A.H. 666, 7th of Ṣafar=A.D. 1267, Oct. 28) ; according to others a pupil of Bahâ-aldîn himself, see Safinat-alauliyâ, Nos. 152 and 154-156 (coll. 290 and 291 in this Cat.), and Haft Iḳlîm, No. 609 (ib., col. 422). He was born A.H. 671 (A.D. 1272, 1273), according to the remark at the beginning of the last faṣl, where he states that he was forty years old when he completed this work, i.e. in A.H. 711 ; he lived first in Multân, later on in Harât, was a friend of Shaikh ‘Irâḳî (see No. 1116 in this Cat.) and of Shaikh Auḥad Kirmânî (died A.H. 697=A.D. 1298, ib., No. 1228), and died, according to Jâmî’s Nafaḥât-aluns (compare Notices et Extraits, xii. p. 420, col. 2), A.H. 718 (A.D. 1318), a date also found in the Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 20 (col. 296 in the Bodleian Cat.), and other tadhkiras ; the Haft Iḳlîm give A.H. 717 (A.D. 1317) as year of his death; also A.H. 719 (A.D. 1319) is mentioned by some authorities. But all these statements must needs be wrong, since another work of the same author, زاد المسافرين (see Nos. 1832-1834 below), was composed either A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320), so in Nos. 110 and 650 of the India Office, or A.H. 729 (A.D. 1329), so in Nos. 110 and 650 of the India Office, or A.H. 729 (A.D. 1329), so in No. 1090 of the India Office, and in the copy described in A.Sprenger , Catal., p. 430. The earliest date of his death therefore is A.H. 720 or 721 ; compare on the author and his نزهة الارواح Âtashkada, No. 237 (col. 270 in the Bodleian Cat.), Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 565 (ib., col. 327) ; Rieu i. p. 40, and ii. p. 608 ; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1255 and 1256 ; W.Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 292-294 ; Krafft, p. 190; G. Flügel iii. p. 418 ; A. F. Mehren, p. 7 ; Cat. des MSS. et Xyl., p. 437 etc. ; see Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 321, No. 13661. Among the numerous commentaries on this work one of the most detailed is شرح نزهة الارواح by ‘Abd-alwâḥid Ibrâhîm alḥusainî albalgrâmî, which was completed A.H. 985 (A.D. 1577, 1578), see No. 1257 of the Bodleian Cat.

The Nuzhat-alarwâḥ is divided into the following twenty-eight faṣls:

1.در مبداء سلوك الهى, on fol. 64a (Vienna copy : در ابتداى سلوك).

2.در معرفت سلوك, on fol. 66a.

3.در مقامات سالك, on fol. 70a (Vienna copy:در مقامات سلوك).

4.در نصيحت سالك, on fol. 71b.

5.در بدو خلقت, on fol.73b.

6.در بيان وحدت, on fol. 75a.

7.در تجريد سالك, on fol. 76b (Vienna copy: در تجريد سلوك).

8.در قاعدۀ طريقت, on fol. 79a, last line.

9.در كمال استغنا, on fol. 82a

10.در آغاز فطرت, on fol. 83b.

11.در اختلاف حالات, on fol. 86a (Vienna copy : در بيان اختلاف حالات).

12.در بيان دل, on fol. 91a.

13.در تصفيۀ دل, on fol. 92b.

14.در ديباچۀ عشق, on fol. 95b.

15.در حقائق عشق, on fol. 99a (Vienna copy: در حقائق عشق و محبّت).

16.در وحدت عشق, on fol. 102b (Vienna copy: در حيرت عشق).

17.در بيان نفس, on fol. 105b.

18.در مخاطبۀ نفس, on fol. 108a.

19.در بيان معاملات, on fol. 110b (Vienna copy: در مقالات).

20.در جدّ و اجتهاد, on fol. 114a (Vienna copy: در متابعت حضرت رسول).

21.در صحبت و متابعت, on fol. 117b.

22.در ترك صحبت خلق, on fol. 120b (Vienna copy : در ترك خلوت).

23.در صبر و تسليم, on fol. 123b.

24.در كشف معانى, on fol. 127b (Vienna copy: در كشف معانئ سلوك).

25.در ارشاد و انتباه, on fol. 137a.

26.در اشارت اهل طريقت, on fol. 140a.

27.در نهايت اين طريق, on fol. 146b (Vienna copy: در تهذيب اهل طريقت).

28.در ختم كتاب, on fol. 151a.

Beginning, on fol.55a: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين على كلّ حال فى كلّ حين و الصّلوة و السّلام على رسوله محمّد و آله اجمعين ‘ قال سيّدنا و مولانا الشّيخ الخ.

The usual initial bait of other copies, viz. بتوفيقش چو روشن ديدم آواز الخ, follows a little further down. This copy, which is dated the 5th of Jumâdâ II, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651, May 26), is particularly valuable on account of its marginal and interlinear glosses and additions.

No. 1430, ff. 55-153, ll. 12: Nasta’lîḳ; size, 105/8 in. by 57/8 in.