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Tariq ut-tahqiq is one of the books attributed to Hakim Sanai Ghaznavi. This is The old Persian mystical poetry book from year 528 AH in Masnavi form.[1][2] This book was published in Persian by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi under the name "Masnavi of Sanai" in 1969 with association of the University of Tehran Press.[3][4]
Sample poem
For 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
References
- ↑ "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.
 - 1 2 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.
 - 1 2 Bo Utas, A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, Curzon Press, 1977.
 
