NUR-UD-DİN 'ABD-UR-RAHMAN JĀMĪ

(FACSIMILE OF AN OLD MS.)

WITH A TRANSLATION BY

E. H. WHINFIELD, M.A., & MIRZĀ MUHAMMAD KAZVĪNĪ

AND PREFACE ON THE

INFLUENCE OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY UPON ṢŪFISM

Reprinted with Additions and Corrections

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY

22 ALBEMARLE STREET

1928

Made and Printed in Great Britain by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., Bradford

T27-205831

CONTENTS

PREFACE

TRANSLATION OF THE LAWÃ'IḤ

APPENDICES:

I. GHAZĀLĪ ON THE UNITY AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

II. PLOTINUS .

III. GHAZĀLĪ ON FANĀ

FACSIMILE OF MANUSCRIPT OF THE LAWA'IḤ (56 pages)

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See but One, say but One, know but One.

Gulshan i Raz, 1. 883.

The Alif of the Loved One's form is graven on my heart, No other letter did my Shaikh ever to me impart.

HAFIZ, Ode 416 (ed. Brockhaus).

My heart inquired, "What is the heaven-sent lore?
If thou'st attained it, teach me, I implore."

"Alif," I said, "if there be one within,

One letter serves to name him—say no more."

OMAR KHAYYĀM, Quatrain 109.