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ms the Quran), a special collection of my father and M7’at-i- 
wa’ id.'; of Tib (Medicalscience), Mujiz al-Qaniin*; of Hik- 
wits (Philosophy): Sharh-i-Hidaya-i-Hikmat * and others ; of Nahv 
yntax), Kafiya* and Mulla’s® commentary thereon n; of Rhe 
toric, the Mutawwal® and of Mukhtasar-i-Ma‘ant’™ the portion 
annotated by Mulla* Zada; and of Astronomy and Mathematics 
several small treatises. In the meantime sublime subjects 
came to my mind, and achievement was much more than my 
exertions. 
In the seventeenth year of this poor self [my] father fell 
ill and retired to the mercy of God in that illness. While on 
death-bed my father permitted me for JBav‘at (initiating 
others in sifiism) and Irshad (spiritual teaching) and repeated 
the expression ‘‘his hand is as my ha nd.’’* The boon that 
should be counted as the highest is that my father was fully 


s a treatise on pious charms and remedies. Catalogue of the 
India Ofte >i weyaldtes 360. 
ielgaien nt of Ibn Sina’s (died 
1037) wo nek ‘ak Ginn by ‘Ala al-Din bin Abi al-Hazm, commonly “called 
bn al-Nafis, died a.H. 687, A.D 88. 
3 It is a esos on Asir al-Din Mufazzal bin ‘Omar al-Abha- 
ri’s (died a.H. 663, A.D. 1264) famous work, entitled Hidayat al-Hikma. 
es i is W Vv 
© commentaries thi ork are taught i ia, O s by Mir 
ain al-Mai i and the other is by Sadr al-Din Muh mat bin 
Thin al- actin Probably the author refers to the same on 
4 The 
‘Omar bin al- Haj, ree H. 646, A.D. 1248. 
6&7 Sa‘d aaa afta ani. died a.n. 792, 1389, wrote two 
commentaries on the Talkhis al. Miftah by ‘I alal al- Din Muhammad bin 
Bic al-Rahim al-Qazvini. commonly called Khatib-i-Dimishg, died 
. 739, a.p. 1338. The earlier and larger of these two ngor acre 
a@‘ani. 
8 His full name was Muhammad Amin bin Sadr Amin : ie 
Mulla “eae He died a.H. 1036, a.p. 1626. Vide Khulasat al-Asar 
vol. 7 p. 4 
9 This raters to the religious custom of the Moslems in whi ch the 
disciple holds the right hand of the oF leader between his two 
a m 
nds edge for abstaining h all sins; the disciple also 
having faith that this act ce to the improvement of | 
spiritual condition r of the sentence, i.e. f of Waliul- 
to sa y, t that the same advantage would be gained by the 
disciples if his son’s hand was held instead of his own hand. 
