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
editFor example, a poem called Litany from this book translated to english as follows:[3][4]
ای برآرندهٔ مه و خورشید |
O Lord of the fog and the sun |
نقش‌بند جهان بیم و امید |
The ruler of the world of fear and hope |
ای به تو زنده جان، چو جسم به جان |
O to you live of soul, like body to soul |
جسم و جان را ز لطف توست توان |
Body and soul can be strengthened by your grace |
روح را هر نفس ز تو مددست |
The soul get your help in every breath |
کرم و رحمت تو بی‌عددست |
Your mercy and grant are innumerable |
ای بسا مسجدی که راندهٔ توست |
Oh, maybe the mosque man you rejected |
وی بسا بت پرست خواندهٔ توست |
Oh, you may waiting for a pagan |
همه فانی شویم و تو باقی |
We are all perish and you remain |
همه مست توایم و تو ساقی |
We are all drunk and you are the cupbearer |
غرض ما ز هرچه هست توئی |
Our purpose is whatever finally is you |
کارساز بلند و پست توئی |
You take peoples up and down |
طمع ما ز تو، عنایت توست |
Our greed for getting you, also is your grace |
رهبر ما به تو، هدایت توست |
Our leader to you, is your guidance |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "انتساب طریق_التّحقیق به حکیم سنایی" (in Persian). Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ "SID.ir _ مثنوي طريق التحقيق از كيست؟" (in Persian). Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Bo Utas, A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, Curzon Press, 1977.