[IO Islamic 558] انتخاب كلّيّات واضح

Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Wâḍiḥ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1674 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 558 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1674

Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Wâḍiḥ (انتخاب كلّيّات واضح ).

Large selections from the complete poetical works of Mîr Mubârak-allâh, with the takhalluṣ Wâḍiḥ, and the honorary title of Irâdatkhân, which was originally borne by his father Mîr Isḥâḳ Irâdatkhân (who died as Nâżim of Oude A.H. 1068=A.D. 1657, 1658), and bestowed upon the poet by the emperor ‘Âlamgîr, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696 , 1697). He died in Farrukhsiyar’s reign, A.H. 1128 (A.D. 1716), see Rieu iii. p. 938; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 130, 151, 160, and 583; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2990 (col. 392 in the Bodleian Cat.) In poetry he was a pupil of Mîr Muḥammad Zamân Râsikh (see above, No. 1649), and wrote besides his poetical works a volume of historical memoirs, covering the period from ‘Âlamgîr’s death, A.H. 1118 (A.D. 1707), to Farrukhsiyar’s entrance into Dihlî, in Muḥarram, A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713, Febr.), styled مقتل السّلاطين , and completed A.H. 1126 (A.D. 1714), see Rieu, loc. cit. (it appeared in a condensed translation by Jonathan Scott, London, 1780; comp. also Elliot, History of India, vii. pp. 534-544). The statement in the preface, on fol. 2a that Zamân Râsikh made this selection in A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687) refers not to the present collection, but to the much smaller extracts in the following copy, to which the preface originally belonged and from where it has been transferred into this. That such is the case, is evident from the inclusion of the Sâḳînâma (on fol. 106a sq.), which was completed A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1695, 1696). Sprenger’s statement, that among Wâḍiḥ’s rubâ’îs is a chronogram for A.H. 1134 (A.D. 1721, 1722), must be due to a mistake, as all tadhkiras agree about his death having taken place under Farrukhsiyar, and the ta’rîkh in question, as it is worded on fol. 584 of his Catal., gives the impossible date of 1183 (!)

Contents:

1.Preface, on fol. 1b, beginning: واضح صاحب كمالان بلند خيال است كه هر نموديرا الخ .

2.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 2b, beginning:

كى گردد از عزيمت من سست نيم نار الخ

3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, intermixed with rubâ’îs, on fol. 20b, beginning:

اى خشك زبان ساخته مقصد طلبانرا

گرداب عدم كرده سراب دو جهانرا

4.Another short collection of ghazals and rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, with a short preface in prose, on fol. 94a, beginning: حمد صانعى كه ربع مسكون سخت را چون سرير عرش نظير ديباچه الخ.

Beginning of the initial poem, on fol. 95a:

بسم الله اين رباعئ عنصر ما الخ

The last two parts fill in Sprenger’s copy more than twice the number of leaves.

5.Sâḳînâma (ساقينامه), with preface, completed A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1695, 1696); beginning of the preface, on fol. 106a: شربنا على ذكر الحبيب مدامة سكرنا بها من قبل الخ.

Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 111a:

بهشيار مستى كه ناك آفريد الخ

6.Six other mathnawîs of mystic tendency, preceded by a preface, which begins, on fol. 114a: عشقست جمال كمالى را كه صفاى حيرت فزاى قلوب عشّاق الخ.

If the remark of the Hamîsha Bahâr, that Wâḍiḥ wrote a mathnawî in six daftars, should apply to this poem, then the six, enumerated here, would form one mathnawî, viz. the آئينۀ راز; but the difference of metre especially between the first, second, and third speaks against this assumption; at any rate, the first, being longer than the five following ones together, seems to be a separate and independent poem.

First mathnawî, on fol. 121a, styled Â’ina-i-râz (آئينۀ راز), ‘the mirror of secrecy,’ commenced A.H. 1075 (A.D. 1664, 1665), and completed A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668); it begins:

بنام آنكه دل آئينه سازست

نظر بازنهانى جمله رازست

Second mathnawî, on fol. 169b, beginning:

بشنو از نائى كه چون نى در دميد الخ

Third, on fol. 184b:

اى مطلع فكر خوش خيالان الخ

Fourth, on fol. 195a:

اى زبيرنگئ تو رنگ همه الخ

Fifth, on fol. 199a:

لوحۀ ديوان كلام قديم الخ

Sixth, on fol. 201b:

قل هو الله احد الخ

No date.

No. 558, ff. 202, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 13½ in. by 7 in.