[IO Islamic 1404] شرح غوثيّه

Sharḥ-i-ghauthiyyah

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1797 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 1404 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1797

Sharḥ-i-ghauthiyyah (شرح غوثيّه).

A Persian paraphrase of and commentary on the غوثيّه, a treatise on the chief points of Ṣûfism, according to the Ḳâdirî order, by the same ׳Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî, made by a disciple of the great Shaikh, Walî bin Mulûkshâh alṣadîḳî alḳâdirî, and beginning:

حمد بيحدّ و ثناء بيعدّ مر حضرت محيى را كه حقيقت انسان آئينۀ مظهر ذات و صفات جلال و جمال ويست الخ.

The رسالۀ حضرت غوث الاعظم itself, or rather the commentary with a Persian paraphrases of all the Arabic phrases, begins thus: قال لى يا غوث الاعظم قُلت لبيك الخ گفت مرا پروردگار اى غوث بزرگ گفتم لبيك الخ.

Dated the 14th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1735, Jan. 9), at the request of Burhân Khânṣâḥib, by Muḥammad the scribe. Another mystical work of the same Walî bin Mulûkshah, the نصيحة العارفين (likewise without date of composition), is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 298.

No. 1404, ff. 75, ll. 11; excellent Nasta’lîḳ , large and distinct; the lines of the first two pages are framed in with gilt borders; size, 121/8 in. by 73/4 in.