Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2352]

<ul> <li><strong>Prayers and charms</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2352&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 372&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/96/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>372</strong></a>.</p> <p>2352. Size 6 in. by 3^1/2 in.; foll. 131. From five to nine lines in a page.</p> <p>A Prayer-book, made up of different portions, mostly well written. Of the twelfth century.</p> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 1-14. S&ucirc;rah 18.</p> </li> <li> <p>Foll. 15-57.</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li> <p>Some portions of the Koran, viz. S&ucirc;rahs 36, 48, 56, 67 and 78. With an interlinear <em>Persian</em> translation.</p> </li> <li> <p>Fol. 49<em>v</em>. Ten verses from the Koran, all speaking of love. They are to be used as a charm.</p> </li> <li> <p>Fol. 52. A Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah prayer, سَهْمُ اللیلِ, ascribed to the Im&acirc;m Mahd&icirc; صاحب الزمان; with advice how to use it (شرح دعاءِ سهم اللیل). It is taken from the glosses on (<em>Ṭ&ucirc;s&icirc;&rsquo;s?</em>) المصباح, by الکفعمی.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Begins: اللهمّ انّی اسئلک بعزیز تعزیز اعتزاز عزّتک.</p> <p>Notes in <em>Persian</em> are on the margin. According to one of them, this piece is derived, through two successive copies, from a MS. of M&icirc;r Muḥammad B&acirc;ḳir D&acirc;m&acirc;d.</p> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 58-67. A prayer, comprising invocations of prophets and demons.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Begins: اللهم یا صانع کل مصنوع.</p> <p>It is preceded and followed by other prayers, charms in <em>Persian</em>, etc., which are rather illegibly written.</p> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 68-114.</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li> <p>A long prayer for Muḥammad, beginning: الحمد لله علی ما مضی. It is followed by two short prayers of the same kind.</p> </li> <li> <p>Fol. 86<em>v</em>. The <em>Burdah</em>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Fol. 108. A mystic Ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, beginning: أنا المطلوبُ فاطْلُبْنِی تَجِدْنِی. The last two words are repeated at the end of every verse.</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li> <p>Foll. 115-131. Various <em>Persian</em> notes and tracts, mostly illegibly written. At the end is a list of the names of God.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Seal of <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10088">Tippu </a>on the first page.</p> <p>[College of Fort William. 1825.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>