Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 421]
<ul> <li><strong>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 421 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </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. 688 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>688.</p> <p>B 421. Size 8<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 6<sup>1/4</sup> in.; foll. 24. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>Mystic Aphorisms, termed (fol. 2<em>v</em>.) رسالة قوانين حكم الاشراق الى كل الصوفية بجميع الافاق , and probably identical with the work Bible. Sprenger. 808, which is ascribed to Jamâl al-din b. Muḥammad Shâdhilî.</p> <p>Begins:الحمدلله الحكيم العليم الرؤف الرحيم .... اما بعد فهذه حكم على طريق القوم ‘ طرق خاطرها خاطرى فى اليقظة و النوم ‘ اردت اثباتها فى هذه الاوراق‘ لانها اشتملت على ما رق وراق الخ.</p> <p>The work consists of fourteen قانون , preceded by a مقدمة on the definition of الحكمة . The ‘’canons’’ are inscribed as follows: I. (fol. 3) قانون التأبيد بمقامات التوحيد ; II. (fol. 6) ﻗ التوبة بمعانى الاوبة ; III. (fol. 7<em>v</em>.) ﻗ الاخلاص ; IV. (fol. 8<em>v</em>.) ﻗ الصدق ; V. (fol.9) ﻗ المراقبة ; VI. (fol. 9<em>v</em>.) ﻗ المحبّة ; VII. (fol.12) ﻗ الزهد ; VIII. (fol.13) ﻗ الفقر ; IX. (fol. 14) ﻗ الرثاء ; X. (fol. 17) ﻗ المعرفة ; XI. (fol.20) ﻗ الفناء ; XII. (fol. 21<em>v.</em>) ﻗ البقاء ; XIII. (fol. 22) ﻗ الولاية العامة ; XIV. (fol.23) ﻗ الولاية الخاصة .</p> <p>Plainly written, on European paper, of the twelfth century. imperfect at the end.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>Erroneously inscribed مقناطيس الارواح , which are words from the preface. Cf. Cat. 233, xiviii.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><sup>1</sup> According to a note on the first page, only one leaf is wanting.</p> <p> </p>
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