Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 414A]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. 

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 414A in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 695 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

695.

B 414A. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 16. About twenty lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-3v. Sayings of inspired men, collected by IBN ‘ARABÎ.

Begins:قال الشيخ الامام المحقق المتبحر ابوعبد الله محمد بن على بن محمد بن العربى الطائى الحاتمى رضى الله عنه هذا كتاب الاعلام باشارات اهل الالهام سالنى في تقييده بعض من يكرم علىّ من الاخوان فامتثلت رسومه على وفق ما تمنى الخ.

These sayings amount to about 260, and are divided into chapters, according to the subjects, as follows:

فى الرؤية فى انواع شتّى. ; فى السماع ; فى الكلام ; فى التوحيد ; فى المعرفة ;

II. Foll. 3v.-4. A fragment of a cabbalistic treatise.

Beginning: كتاب القوانين كان ثلاثة احرف و الخاء حرفان الخ.

Written in a different hand from the rest, terminating abruptly with fol.4.

III.Foll.5-16. A mystic discourse, by an unknown author.

Begins:الحمد لله الذى بسط مهاد الدين للعالمين ... و بعد فهذ(ا) خطاب للموقنين بنفحة من نفحات اليقين.

Written, like no. I., by Ḥusain b. ‘Abdallah b. ‘Alawî al-‘Aidarûs. Dated Sunday, 12th Rajab, 1143.

Slightly injured.

Cat. 232, xliii. (?) and xlii.