Kashf al-Mahjub - Urdu Only

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Kashf al-Mahjub (Unveiling of the Veiled) is the oldest treatise on Islamic mysticism (Sufism) written by Sayyed ‘Ali bin ‘Uthman al-Hujwiri popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh.
He has written nine books prior to Kashf al-Mahjub but none of these writings have been preserved.(1)Shaykh Hujwiri has himself stated that two of his manuscripts were borrowed by others who erased his name from the title and gave out to the public in their own names.(2) So it can be said that plagiarism or fraud in writing books was prevalent even during Shaykh’s times.
Kashf al-Mahjub is the first comprehensive book in Persian language on Tasawwuf. It was written at a time when Arabic was still the dominant language for expressing Islamic religious thought. Prior to Shaykh, masters such as Abu Nasr al-Sarraj and Abu Talib al-Makki had written famous Arabic treatises discussing Sufi thought and practice in terms of the standard religious sciences.(3) Prince Muhammad Dara Shikoh (d.1069 A.H.) speaks of this book as follows:“Of the books on Sufism in the Persian language there is none so well composed as the Kashf al-Mahjub.”(4) This treatise was a model for great Sufi biographer Fariduddin ‘Attar when he wrote his Tadhkirat al-Auliya. Carl W. Ernst has expressed his views about this book as follows:Kashf al-Mahjub is not simply a literary production,however, for it is an exposition of practical Sufism summarzing a wide tradition of centuries of reflections; the authorwrote it at the request of a fellow-Sufi from his hometown of Hujwir.
Kashf al-Mahjub is still one of the best description of the Sufi path. It has been said that those who seek a guide in Sufism should do three things: pray for guidance, visit the tombs of great Shaykhs, and read Kashfal-Mahjub.

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