Introduction

Bismi Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm

al-Muqaddimah

al-Ḥamd lillāh rabb al-ʻālamīn, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá kāffat al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-mursalīn, siyamā Muḥammad wa-ālih al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn.

Wa-baʻd. Fa-qad ʻathartu ʻalá nuskhah makhṭūṭah min hādhā al-athar al-nafīs tārīkh kitābatihā fī ḥudūd sanat 1100 h wa-aṭaltu fīhā al-naẓar ḥīnamā kuntu mashghūf bi-kashf khawāfī asrār ʻilm al-nafs wa-dars aḥwālihā tajallat lī ka-annahā yanbūʻ nūr yanbathiq ʻanhu ashiʻʻah tuḍīʼ ghayāhib al-jahl maʻa annahā laysat illā biḍʻat suṭūr fīhā afkār sāmiyah wa-maʻānin ʻāliyah turshid al-ḥāʼir al-ladhī khānahu al-dalīl ilá sawāʼ al-sabīl wa-uslūbuhā balagha min darajāt al-kamāl aʻláhā wa-min marāqī al-jamāl asmáhā fa-lā ghurw fa-inna wāḍiʻahā akbar faylasūf jāda bihi al-qarn al-sābiʻ wa-anwar qabas ẓahara fī ẓulmah mudlahimmah fa-āthartu sharḥahā sharḥ yuwāfiq uslūb al-ʻaṣr wāḍiʻ lahā muqaddimah mabsūṭah tubayyin maqām al-rūḥ wa-al-māddah falsafī fī al-adwār al-thalāthah al-dawr al-Yūnānī fa-al-ʻArabī al-Islāmī fa-al-Ifranjī wa-dhākir mukhtaṣar min al-bisikūlūjiyā (1) al-ʻaṣrī li-yakūn wāfī bi-al-gharaḍ wa-atawakhkhá bihi khidmat al-ʻilm al-ṣaḥīḥ.

Kalimah ʻan nafs al-risālah

Waḍaʻa al-faylasūf al-aʻẓam Naṣīr al-Dīn hādhihi al-risālah li-tilmīdhihi Muʼayyid al-Dīn al-Falakī al-muhandis al-ladhī ʻāḍadahu fī marṣad Marāghah dhakara ismahā fī ʻidād muṣannafātihi min al-qudamāʼ Muḥammad ibn Shākir ibn Aḥmad al-Kutubī al-mutawaffī sanat 764 fī kitābihi (Fawāt al-Wafayāt) wa-dhakarahā min al-mutaʼakhkhirīn Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān al-adīb al-Fārisī al-shahīr bi-al-Ḥakīm fī kitābihi — Kanj Dānish (1) — al-ladhī waḍaʻahu fī al-jughrāfiyā wa-al-buldān wa-al-ʻālim al-jalīl al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Jawāhirī fī kitābihi al-kabīr Āthār al-Shīʻah al-Imāmīyah

— al-ḥawāshī —

[8] (1) ʻilm al-nafs

[5] (1) (Kanj Dānish) kalimah Fārisīyah bi-maʻná — makhzan al-ʻirfān — wa-huwa yabḥath ʻan al-buldān wa-al-tawārīkh wa-tarājim mashāhīr al-rijāl.