Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 403] شرح الجامي على فصوص الحكم

<ul> <li><strong>Ṣ&ucirc;fism and Ethics.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 403&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. 647 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/174/mode/2up">647</a>.</strong></p> <p>B 403. Size 8^1/2 in. by 5^1/4 in.; foll. 294. Nineteen lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary (ممزوج) on the فصوص الحكم , by &lsquo;<a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068673.html">Abd al-raḥm&acirc;n b. Aḥmad J&Acirc;M&Icirc;</a> (d. A.H. 898), the renowned poet, who completed it, according to the epilogue, A.H. 896. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 426.</p> <p>Well written, the beginning in a different hand from the rest. Marginal notes. The colophon runs as follows:</p> <p>وقد تشرّف باتمام كتابة هذا الشرح الشريف العبد الفقير الحقير عبدالصمد ابن نياز محمد ثمرقندى (!) ثبته الله تعالى على منهج الصدق و السداد فى العمل و القول و الاعتقاد و نقله من نسخة المغفورى المرحومى اعنى مولانا محمد شريف الحسينى و نقل كاتب هذه النسخة من الكتاب الذى كان بخط المصنف قدس الله سره و افاض علينا بره فى اول شهر ذى الحجة</p> <p>دستم بزیر خاک چو خواهد شدن تباه</p> <p>باری بیادکار بماند خطی سیاه</p> <p>Defects after foll. 178, 184, and 262.</p> <p>There precedes (foll. 1-3<em>r</em>.) the concluding portion of a mystic treatise by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50082069/">IBN &lsquo;ARAB&Icirc;</a>. It contains a table, which is much like that described in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Leberecht_Fl%C3%BCgel">Fl&uuml;gel</a>, <a href="https://id.loc.gov/resources/works/3217598.html">Hdss</a>. Wien, iii. 357 sq. The author says in conclusion:</p> <p>فهذا اصل نشئ العالم و سببه الخ</p> <p>Written in the first hand. Ends: [with name of scribe and the date 1109 = 1697-98 CE]</p> <p>تم فى اواخر جميد الآخر لسنة ست عشر و تسعمائة كتبه الفقير حقير المذنب سعد الله ابن ملا محمد قلى البخارى سنة ١١٥٩</p> <p>Fol. 3<em>v</em>. gives, as derived from J&Acirc;M&Icirc;&rsquo;S autograph, the quatrain (رباعى) which he made on the birth of his second son, Ṣaf&icirc; al-d&icirc;n Muḥammad, A.H. 880:</p> <p>فرزند صفى دين محمد كه جهان</p> <p>شد زنده باوچنانک تن زنده بجان</p> <p>چون شد بوجود او جهان فخر کنان</p> <p>شد سال ولادت وی از فخر عیان</p> <p>-the numerical value of the word فخر being 880.</p> <p>Then follows the chronogram, referring to the subsequent death of the boy, A.H. 881:بقاى حيات شما بادا</p> <p>Cf. <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinzenz_Rosenzweig_von_Schwannau">Ven Rosenzwieg</a>, <em><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/biographische-notizen-uber-mewlana-abdurrahman-dschami-nebst-ubersetzungsproben-aus-seinen-diwanen/oclc/41592089">Biographische Notizen &uuml;ber Mewlana Abdurrahman Dschami</a></em> (Wien, 1840), p. 32 (d. 8).</p> <p>Cat. 231, vi. 2.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>