Delhi Persian 993 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous mystical works, 3 works (a-c)
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Collection of multiple Ṣūfī works. Not dated; circa early nineteenth century.
Item a.
Treatise commenting on ninety-six ecstatic utterances or shaṭḥiyāt of Ṣufīs as illustrations of points from the Qurʿān, Aḥādīs̲, and the works of great scholars, by the Prince Sulṭān Muḥammad Dārā Shukūh ibn Shāh Jahān (murdered 1069/1659).
The author began his work in the thirty-eighth year of his life, or 1062/1652.
Not dated.
Followed by anecdotes on holy men (ff. 59-62); blank (ff. 63-73).
Item b.
Series of crude verses paired with numbered diagrams under subheadings naming various birds (peacock, crane, stork, duck, pigeon, hawk, dove, magpie, hoopoe, crow, cock, pheasant, parrot, partridge, etcetera) intended for telling fortunes, bizarrely attributed to Buzurjmihr, the minister of the Anūshīrvān.
Dated: 24 Shavvāl 1245/13 April 1830.
Item c.
Untitled ijāzah or certificate licensing Khvājah Muḥammad Mīr as a member of the Qādirīyah ṭarīqah, issued under his pīr, Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh, whose spiritual genealogy is traced through Shaykh Aḥmad Fārūqī Sihrindī/Sarhindī to the Prophet Muḥammad via ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.
Transcribed in bold naskh with vocalisations.
Not dated.
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