Delhi Persian 1020 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Brief treatise on good moral conduct and the duties of javān'mardī or chivalry, for the larger purpose of combating unbelievers, by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Dated: 22 Rajab 1007/18 February 1599.

Item b.

Account of six practical rules for the daily conduct of Ṣūfīs set out by the saint known as Chirāgh-i Dihlī or Naṣīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Avadhī al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī (d. 757/1356), and interpreted by the present author, Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Dated: 29 Rajab 1007/25 February 1599.

Item c.

Allegorical story of the woman flower-seller representing a worldly life and the detached travelling Ṣūfī representing the godly life.

The narrative is here attibuted to the saint Muḥammad Gīsūdarāz al-Ḥusaynī. However, in its present form, it is more likely to be the work of the present compiler, Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Dated: 9 Shaʿbān 1007/7 March 1599.

Item d.

Allegorical story of travelling party that comes upon a lake. As others wade in, the protagonist spies a beautiful maiden and falls in love and concludes by the intervention of a forbiding voice. This is interpreted as a confirmation of the doctrine of vaḥdat or unity.

The story is here attibuted to the saint Muḥammad Gīsūdarāz al-Ḥusaynī, and further interpreted by the present author, Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Dated: 19 Ṣafar 1003/3 November 1594.

Item e.

Allegorical story on personal spiritual battles by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

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Item f.

Interpretations of the various allegories and legends in the light of Ṣufī ideas, including also the poet Rūmī's story of the elephant and the blind men, by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

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Item g.

Mystical interpretations of a verse of Amīr Khusraw by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Not dated.

Item h.

Treatise on the virtues of gaining a livelihood by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Defective at end.

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Item i.

Brief treatise on the Sufi doctrine of mystical love by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

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Item j.

Brief essay on the conduct of Ṣūfīs undertaking various kinds of seclusion by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

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Item k.

Brief homily on the subject of physical and spiritual ḥajj or pilgrimage by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Not dated

Item l.

Brief homily on the inheritance of prophetic knowledge, characterising knowledge without demonstrative deeds as a tree without fruit, by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī.

Not dated.

Item m.

Brief homily on the virtue of reciting the Qurʾān with reverence and sincerity, by the author Abū Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Awliyāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr, known as Shaykh Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Miyān'jīv al-Fārūqī al-Chishtī. 

Dated colophon: completed by Dawlat Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad on 17 Ṣafar 1008/8 September 1599.