Fawaid Al-Fawad

Book excerpt: This is a very old book which was written by Amir Hasan Ala Sejzi about the speeches (Malfuzat) of advices and discourses of his spiritual master Hadrat Khaja Nizamuddin Auliya and which was translated from Persian into Urdu language and the first time I was translating this book into English. This translation of the most ancient and celebrated Persian old book on Sufi'ism will, I hope, be found useful not only by the number of students familiar with the subject at first hand, but also by many readers. In this book it has five parts with a total of 188 Majalis (meetings). Fawaid Al-Fawad deserves to be classified as one of the classics in didactic literature on Sufism. This is a very lengthy book and it is available in five volumes and also it is very lengthy in 'Hast Bahist' series in which there are advises and instructions, especially available for Taleb (student) and it refers to a person who is committed to a Murshid (spiritual master) in a Tariqa (spiritual path) of Sufism and it is also known as a Salik (Arabic: سَالِك‎), a Mureed is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism and all these details of advices by the spiritual master Khaja Fariduddin Gunj Shaker are added in this book. And also in this book there are some great achievements which are not yet known to the general person are published in a very interesting style so for this reason the readers will find great interest and attention to this matter. From the above facts and details, if the readers will starts reading this magazine's first page and will not stop its reading till they will reach its last page as in this magazine some interesting events and as well as other great miracles and endeavours of holy saint are added and this holy saint to have passed away from the world some 700 years ago.