[IO Islamic 2001] بيان التّنزيل

Bayân-altanzîl

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1806 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 2001 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1806

Bayân-altanzîl (بيان التّنزيل).

A treatise on Ṣûfism, being a kind of شرح or commentary on the كتاب التّنزيل, by the well-known mystic Shaikh and writer ‘Azîz bin Muḥammad alnasafî (here spelt النّصفى!) albukhârî, who died A.H. 661 (A.D. 1263), at Abarḳûh, see Rieu iii. p. 1095a. Other works of the same author are the انسان الكامل فى معرفة الوافر , the famous collection of twenty-one mystic risâlas, see G. Flügel iii. pp. 430-438 ; the كشف الحقائق, an epitome of the 400 volumes of Shaikh Sa’d-aldîn Ḥummû’î (Najm-aldîn Kubrâ’s pupil, who died A.H. 650, the 10th of Dhû-alḥijjah=A.D. 1253, Feb. 11 ; comp. Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 126, col. 288 in this Cat.), see Bodleian Cat., No. 1249 ; and the مقصد اقصى , see ib., No. 1250 ; Rieu ii. p. 834b ; W.Pertsch, No. 6, 11; Berlin Cat., p. 1053 (No. 6) ; Palmer, Cat. of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, p. 70 ; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. v. pp. 42 and 43, etc; translated into Turkish by Ibrâhîm bin ‘Abdallâh, see G. Flügel iii. pp. 457 and 489, No. 3 ; and W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 159; and forming the basis of E. H. Palmer’s ‘Oriental Mysticim,’ Cambridge, 1867.

Like the original work, the present commentary (probably by ‘Aziz alnasafî himself) is divided into twenty اصل ; but our copy is incomplete at the end and has besides several lacunas. The remainder of an index appears on fol. 6a. The proper order of the leaves appears on fol. 6a. The proper order of the leaves is: ff. 6, 2-5, 7-80, lacuna, 81-86, lacuna, 1, 87-90, lacuna, 91.

The headings of the twenty اصل are as follows:

1.در معرفت خداى, on fol. 2a.

2.در مزاج و روح و جسم, on fol. 37a.

3.در معرفت ملك, on fol. 43b.

4.در معرفت انسان, on fol. 45a.

5.در معرفت نبى و ولى, on fol. 53a.

6.در معرفت صاحب شريعت و صاحب حقيقت, on fol. 56b.

7.در معجزه و كرامت, on fol. 58b.

8.در معرفت وحى و الهام, on fol. 60a.

9.در معرفت موت و حيات, on fol. 63b.

10.در معرفت معاد, on fol. 65a.

11.در معرفت شريعت و طريقت و حقيقت و ايمان و اسلام و احسان, on fol. 77b.

12.در معرفت عبادت و شرائط و اركان آن, on fol. 78a.

13.در معرفت معاملات وشرائط و اركان آن, on fol. 78a.

These two اصل appear only with their headings here, and the author’s explanation of this strange fact is, that ‘his brother will write them hereafter.’

14.در معرفت سلوك و شرائط و اركان آن, on fol. 78a.

15.در معرفت خدمت و عزلت و صحبت, on fol. 83a.

16.Which ought to contain, according to the index, در معرفت بالغ الخ, is missing in the text ; there only appear, on fol. 85a, a second اصل پانزدهم در بيان عزلت, and , on fol. 86a, another اصل در بيان صحبت.

17.در معرفت تقوى, on fol. 1a.

18.در معرفت شكر و صبر و رضا, on fol. 87b.

19.در معرفت قضا و قدر, on fol. 88a.

20.Not found in the text ; it was to contain, according to the index : در بيان آنكه مقصود ازين نوزده چه بود ; in its stead a second اصل نوزدهم appears on fol. 90b, without any heading. On fol. 91b the treatise breaks off.

Beginning: حمد و سپاس بى غايت مر خدايرا است عزّ جلاله و تعالى كبرياؤه الخ.

No. 2001, ff. 91, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 51/8 in.