Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 382]

Ṣûfism and Ethics.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 382 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 612 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

612.

B 382. Size 10 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 15. About twenty lines in a page.

كتاب الرسالة اللَّدُنيّة للامام حجة الاسلام محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى الخ.

A short treatise of GHAZZÂLÎ (d. A.H. 505), in which he claims for Ṣûfism (العلم الغيبى اللدنى) the name of a science (علم). He also gives a general classification of the Muḥammadan sciences. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 436, who gives an abstract of the preface.

The author says in conclusion:و شرائط التفكر نحصر فى رسالة اخرى .... و الآن نختم هذه الرسالة فانّ فى هذه الكلمات كفاية لاهلها و من لم يجعل الله له نوراً فما له من نور والله ولىّ التوفيق و عليه التكلان.

Written in a large plain hand, by order of Saiyid ‘Abdallah b. ‘Alawî al-Ḥaddâd. Revised.

An unfinished notice of Khalîl b. Aḥmad, and some poetry, are on the last page.

The birth-days of two sons of Saiyid ‘Omar فقيه are noted on the title-page. ; viz., ‘Aidarûs, born on 29th Ramaḍân, 1067, and Shaikh, born on 3rd Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 1069.

Cat. 232, xviii.