[IO Islamic 938] مرغوب القلوب

Marghûb-alḳulûb

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1841 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 938 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1841

Another copy of the same.

This copy of the مرغوب القلوب is provided (a) with a preface in prose, identical with that in the Vienna copy; (b) with a kind of commentary to each verse, consisting of traditions (حديث ), quotations from the Ḳurân (قوله تعالى), etc., illustrating the meaning of the text. It should therefore rather be styled (as a note on the fly-leaf implies): شرح مرغوب القلوب. The date of composition is found here on fol. 20b, last line, together with the title.

Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و العاقبة للمتّقين و الصّلوة و السّلام على رسوله محمّد و آله و اصحابه اجمعين׳ اين كتاب مرغوب القلوب از گفتار شيخ الاسلام و المشايخ و قطب المحقّقين ..... شمس الدّين و الدّنيا شمس تبريزى الخ.

Beginning of the poem, on fol. 2a, l. 2:

بگويم حمد ربّ العالمين را

عطا كو كرد بر ما عقل و دين را

Faṣl 1.در بيان توبه, on fol. 6b ; 2.در بيان روح, on fol. 8a; 3.در بيان وضو, on fol. 10b; 4.در بيان ترك دنيا , on fol. 13a, first line; 5.دربيان تجريد, on fol. 16a; 6.در بيان معرفت, on fol. 17a; 7.در بيان عشق و محبت, on fol. 18b; 8.در بيان عاشق و معشوق, on fol. 19a; 9. در بيان فنا و بقا, on fol. 19b ; 10.در بيان اقامت سفر, on fol. 20a.

Dated the 29th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1115 (١١٥?) =A.D. 1703, Aug. 12. A seal of ‘Abd-alwahhâb Khân Bahâdur, with the 1174 (A.D. 1760, 1761), on fol. 1a.

No. 938, ff. 21, ll. 9; Shikasta; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.