17. The Persian Autobiography of Shah Waliullah bin 
‘Abd al-Rahim al-Dihlavi: its English transla- 
tion and a list of his works. 
By 
Mawuavi M. Hirpayat HUSAIN, 
Lecturer, Presidency College, Calcutta. 
ies in divers branches of the Islamic culture. ra) 
them have excelled even the great savants of Magee and Persia. 
Shah Waliullah of Dihli is one of them. He w the most 
celebrated Muhaddis eaten and the most ihe master 
of Divinity of his time. His Persian autobiography, with a 
translation and a list of his works, will be of some interest to 
the students of Arabic literature. His scholarship was so pro- 
found that Siddiq Hasan Khan of Qannuj in his work thaf al- 
Nubul@ remarks about him that ‘‘had he been born in the 
first century a.H. he would have ranked as Imam al-A’imma wa 
Taj al-Mujtahidin * (the Leader of the Leaders and the Crown 
of Law-givers.’ 
Autobiography. 
Praise be to God who began His gifts before their being 
deserved and particularized whomsoever He wis shed with the 
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girdles of dignities, honoured with varieties and ranges of gifts ; 
and on his meg rissegeres and companions through whom the 
Faith pre. [firm] and its market is current. After this the 
humble one, Waliullah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahim (may God for- 
give oan and his parents and do poe to them and to him), 
astrologers by the aGaitiahe of the vathies | ela bodies] 
declared that “the star of [my] birth was in the second degr ee of 
Pisces, ¢ and the sun {had risen] one degree only, Venus ¥ was in 
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