Tariq ut-tahqiq

Tariq ut-tahqiq is one of the books attributed to Sanai. It is an Early New Persian mystical poetry book from 1133 in mathnawi form.[1][2] This book was published in Persian by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi as Masnavi of Sanai in 1969 with association of the University of Tehran Press.[3][4]

Sample poem

For example, a poem called Litany from this book translated to english as follows:[3][4]

ای برآرندهٔ مه و خورشید

Translation:

O Lord of the fog and the sun

نقش‌بند جهان بیم و امید

Translation:

The ruler of the world of fear and hope

ای به تو زنده جان، چو جسم به جان

Translation:

O to you live of soul, like body to soul

جسم و جان را ز لطف توست توان

Translation:

Body and soul can be strengthened by your grace

روح را هر نفس ز تو مددست

Translation:

The soul get your help in every breath

کرم و رحمت تو بی‌عددست

Translation:

Your mercy and grant are innumerable

ای بسا مسجدی که راندهٔ توست

Translation:

Oh, maybe the mosque man you rejected

وی بسا بت پرست خواندهٔ توست

Translation:

Oh, you may waiting for a pagan

همه فانی شویم و تو باقی

Translation:

We are all perish and you remain

همه مست توایم و تو ساقی

Translation:

We are all drunk and you are the cupbearer

غرض ما ز هرچه هست توئی

Translation:

Our purpose is whatever finally is you

کارساز بلند و پست توئی

Translation:

You take peoples up and down

طمع ما ز تو، عنایت توست

Translation:

Our greed for getting you, also is your grace

رهبر ما به تو، هدایت توست

Translation:

Our leader to you, is your guidance

See also

References

  1. ^ "انتساب طریق_التّحقیق به حکیم سنایی" (in Persian). Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. ^ "SID.ir _ مثنوي طريق التحقيق از كيست؟" (in Persian). Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b Bo Utas, Tariq ut-tahqiq. A Sufi Mathnavi ascribed to Hakim Sana’i of Ghazna and probably composed by Ahmad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad an-Naxcavani. A critical edition, with a history of the text and a commentary (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 13), Lund 1973. 243, 55 pp.
  4. ^ a b Bo Utas, A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, Curzon Press, 1977.