Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2131]

Prayers and charms.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2131 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 355 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

355.

2131. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 109. Nine and thirteen lines in a page.

Foll. 1-89. The دلائل الخیرات of JAZÛLÎ, without the introduction.

Beginning: اللهم صل علی محمد و ازواجه و ذ[رّیّته]1 کما صلیت علی ابراهیم الخ.

Plainly written; vowel-points occasionally added.

Foll. 91v.-101. A prayer for Muḥammad, styled درود اکبر.

It begins: و اشهد بانّا نشهد ان لا اله الاّ الله وحده, and is preceded by a Persian introduction, اسناد درود اکبر.

Plainly written, with all the vowels. It was transcribed by Shaikh Muḥammad عرب, in Rajab, 1084, for Malik Yâḳût Ṣalâbat Khân.

The vacant pages between these two pieces are filled with a prayer for Muḥammad, written in a very large hand, and at the foot of the second is a charm, ascribed to ‘Alî, in Persian, written in Shikastah.

Foll. 102-109. A morning prayer.

Beginning: بسم الله علی نفسی و اهلی و مالی اللهم انت ربّی.

Well written in a large hand.

For the rest of the volume, see Urdû and Persian MSS.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

1 Effaced.