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Nūr al-hidāyah wa-al-ʻirfān fī sirr al-rābiṭah wa-al-tawajjuh wa-Khatm al-Khawājakān : manuscript
Creator
نقشبندي، محمد أسعد.
Title
Nūr al-hidāyah wa-al-ʻirfān fī sirr al-rābiṭah wa-al-tawajjuh wa-Khatm al-Khawājakān : manuscript / Muḥammad Asʻad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khālidī al-ʻUthmānī.
نور الهداية والعرفان في سر الرابطة والتوجّه وختم الخواجكان : مخطوطة / محمد أسعد بن محمود الخالدي العثماني.
Production
Place not identified, 1887.
Physical Description
1 volume (46 leaves) ; 28 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from folio 2b.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ayyada al-Sharīʻah al-Aḥmadīyah bi-ẓuhūr al-zumrah al-taqīyah al-naqīyah, ahl al-akhlāq al-Muḥammadīyah, fa-aḥyá bi-him al-arwāḥ al-ṭāhirah al-zakīyah ... Ammā baʻd, fa-yaqūlu asīr al-dhunūb ... Muḥammad Asʻad ibn al-Ustādh al-Shaykh Maḥmūd al-Khālidī al-ʻUthmānī, al-mulaqqab bi-al-Ṣāḥib ... inna al-wird al-maʻrūf ʻinda sādātinā al-aslāf al-Naqshabandīyah wa-qādatinā al-aṣḥāb al-Khālidīyah ... al-musammá bi-al-Khatm al-Khawājakānī al-muḥtawī ʻalá baʻḍ ayāt min al-Qurʼān al-Karīm wa-al-Sabʻ al-Mathānī, huwa laysa fī al-ḥaqīqah min sharāʼiṭ hādhihi al-ṭarīqah al-anīqah, bal huwa min awrād akābir mashāyikhihā al-kirām ... al-Khawājah ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghajdawānī ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي أيّد الشريعة الأحمدية بظهور الزمرة التقية النقية، أهل الأخلاق المحمدية، فأحيى بهم الأرواح الطاهرة الزكية ... أما بعد، فيقول أسير الذنوب ... محمد أسعد بن الأستاذ الشيخ محمود الخالدي العثماني، الملقب بالصاحب ... إن الورد المعروف عند ساداتنا الأسلاف النقشبندية وقادتنا الأصحاب الخالدية ... المسمى بالختم الخواجكاني المحتوي على بعض آيات من القرآن الكريم والسبع المثاني، هو ليس في الحقيقة من شرائط هذه الطريقة الأنيقة، بل هو من أوراد أكابر مشايخها الكرام ... الخواجة عبد الخالق الغجدواني ..."
Secundo folio: Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi.
بداية الورقة الثانية: الله، صلى الله عليه.
17 x 24.5 cm; written surface: 11.2 x 17.5 cm; 25 lines per page.
Binding: In makeshift cardboard binding; folio 1 is glued to the back of the front cover.
In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some corrections and comments on the margins; text within double red frames; catchwords.
Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhihā ʻan nuskhah bi-khaṭṭ muʼallifihā al-fāḍil al-amjad wa-al-fard al-awḥad, al-Ṣāḥibī al-Naqshabandī, al-Shaykh Muḥammad Asʻad, lā zāla baḥran lil-mustafīd, wa-rābiṭah fī īṣāl al-ṭālib wa-al-murīd, bi-qalam aḥqar al-anām, kathīr al-dhunūb wa-al-āthām, al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kīlānī, al-shahīr bi-al-Ẓibyānī, khādim al-fuqarāʼ al-kirām, ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-ʻan wālidayhi wa-al-Muslimīn, wa-dhālika fī al-yawm al-sādis ʻashar min shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram, sanat khams wa-thalāthimiʼah wa-alf min Hijrat man khaṣṣahu Allāh bi-akmal waṣf."
الخاتمة: "وكان الفراغ من نسخها عن نسخة بخط مؤلفها الفاضل الأمجد والفرد الأوحد، الصاحبي النقشبندي، الشيخ محمد أسعد، لا زال بحرًا للمستفيد، ورابطة في إيصال الطالب والمريد، بقلم أحقر الأنام، كثير الذنوب والآثام، السيد محمد علي الكيلاني، الشهير بالظبياني، خادم الفقراء الكرام، عفا الله عنه وعن والديه والمسلمين، وذلك في اليوم السادس عشر من شهر الله المحرم، سنة خمس وثلاثمائة وألف من هجرة من خصّه الله بأكمل وصف."
Translation of the colophon: "The copy was reproduced from the autograph of its distinguished, prominent and illustrious author, al-Ṣāḥibī al-Naqshabandī, al-Shaykh Muḥammad Asʻad, who continues to be a sea of knowledge for the seekers and a means for connecting the student and the devotee, by the most despised of creatures, he who is full of sins and vices, al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kīlānī, al-shahīr bi-al-Ẓibyānī, servant of the noble poor [the sufis], may God forgive him, his parents and Muslims, on 16 Muḥarram, 1305 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [4 October, 1887], on whom God has bestowed the most perfect distinction."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
Nūr al-hidāyah wa-al-ʻirfān fī sirr al-rābiṭah wa-al-tawajjuh wa-Khatm al-Khawājakān, "Light of guidance and cognition on the secret of the association, patronage and Khatm al-Kawājakān ritual", a treatise on Naqshabandīyah Ṣufī order, by Muḥammad Asʻad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khālidī al-ʻUthmānī (1271-1347 / 1854-1928), a prominent Naqshabandī Ṣūfi and author, from Damascus (Syria), of Kurdish origin, who was in charge of "Khatm al-Khawājakān" ritual, at Takīyat al-Sulṭān Sulaymān (a dervish convent, outside Damascus). "Khatm al-Khawājakān" is a Naqshabandīyah "dhikr" (Ṣūfī ritual), founded by ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʻAbd al-Jamīl al-Ghajdawānī (from the village of Ghajdawān near Bukhārá, Uzbekistan, who was known by the title "Khawājakān", Shaykh of the Shaykhs, in Persian). The treatise was written in defense of the Naqshabandīyah order, its doctrines and its rituals. Copied from the autograph of the author, by al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kīlanī al-shahīr bi-al-Ẓibyānī (could not be identified), on 16 Muḥarram, 1305 (4 October, 1887). Place of copying not mentioned.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2017
References
Muḥammad Asʻad al-Naqshabandī, Nūr al-hidāyah wa-al-ʻirfān fī sirr al-rābiṭah wa-al-tawajjuh wa-khatm al-Khawājakān. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Muḥammad Asʻad al-Naqshabandī, Nūr al-hidāyah wa-al-ʻirfān fī sirr al-rābiṭah wa-al-tawajjuh wa-khatm al-Khawājakān. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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