Ṣûfism and Ethics [Bijapur 120]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. 

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 120 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 685 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

685.

B 120. Size 83/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 53. Seventeen lines in a page.

A mystic treatise, by KALÎM ALLAH b. Nûr Allah.

It is entitled العشرة الكاملة , because the author wrote it during the last ten days of Ramaḍân, 1092.

Each of those days was devoted to a special subject, and the work is arranged accordingly, as follows :

اليوم الاول فى المعرفة ( 2.fol) -الثانى فى توحيد ذاته تعالى و تقدس (4.fol.)- الثالث فى اسمائه وصفاته تع (9v..fol)-الرابع فی الروح (fol. 24) -الخامس فى الحبّ 1(.fol.30v )– السادس فى الاركان الخمسة ( .fol.32v)- السابع فى التخلّى عن الرذائل (.fol.35v) -الثامن فى التجلی بالفضائل(.fol.41 ) التاسع فى السماع (.fol.46v) العاشر فى بيان السبق بالخير 1(؟51.fol).

The author says in conclusion that he was prevented from entering more fully into the last subject, though it was the most important, since the time was much advanced, and evening prayer near at hand.

Plainly written, but incorrect.

Cat. 232, xi.

1 Not marked in the text.