Hadiqat al Haqiqa de Hakim Sanai, Manuscrito persa de 1894

Mathnawi Mathnawi ( ar, مثنوي ''mathnawī'') or masnavi ( fa, مثنوی) is a kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, or more specifically "a poem based on independent, internally rhyming lines". Most mathnawī poems follow a meter of eleven, or oc ...

Hadiqat al Haqiqa va Shari'at al-Tariqah ( ar, حديقة الحقيقة وشريعة الطريقة, lit=The Garden of Truth and The Path to Trek) or Elahi Nameh ( fa, الهی نامه, lit=Treatise to Theology) is an early Sufi book of poetry written in the

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...

, composed by Sanai Ghaznavi, with an

Irfan In Islam, ‘Irfan (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: ; tr, İrfan), literally ‘knowledge, awareness, wisdom’, is gnosis. Islamic mysticism can be considered as a vast range that engulfs theoretical and practical and conventional mysticism, but the co ...

theme. Sanai started composing it in the year 1130 AD (524 AH) and finished it in the year 1131 AD (525 AH). The book has ten thousand verses in ten chapters; The subjects of this book, in addition to praising Allah, the Last Prophet of Islam,

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and companions, are about intellect, knowledge, wisdom and love. The manuscripts of Hadiqat al Haqiqa have been corrected and republished by

Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi distinguished Professor of University of Tehran, was an Iranian Literary researcher and author. He was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran on March 18, 1896, and died on November 19, 1986, in Tehran ...

in 1949. Another correction has been published by Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi and Mehdi Zarghani in two volumes in October 2018.

Its validity

Compared to other valuable works of

Sanai Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi ( fa, ), more commonly known as Sanai, was a Persian poet from Ghazni who lived his life in the Ghaznavid Empire which is now located in Afghanistan. He was born in 1080 and died between 1131 ...

such as his

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and

odes Odes may refer to: *The plural of ode, a type of poem *Odes (Horace), ''Odes'' (Horace), a collection of poems by the Roman author Horace, circa 23 BCE *Odes of Solomon, a pseudepigraphic book of the Bible *Book of Odes (Bible), a Deuterocanonic ...

, Hadiqat al Haqiqa has been the most ambitious and accepted by character of more people over the centuries. Hadiqat al Haqiqa is one of the poem books that has influenced many poets. By composing this poem, Sanai opened a new chapter in composing mystical poems in the history of literature and mysticism. Great poets such as

Khaqani Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī ( fa, خاقانی, , – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as ...

in composing Tuhfat al-Iraqayn and

Nizami Ganjavi Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in, ...

in composing

Makhzan al-Asrar Makhzan ol-Asrar or Makhzan al-Asrar ( fa, مخزن‌الاسرار, The Treasury of Mysteries) is the title of a famous Mathnawi by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). Makhzan ol-Asrar is the first poem collection in the main and ...

were under the direct influence of Hadiqat al Haqiqa. Just a few years after Hadiqat al Haqiqa release,

Attar of Nishapur Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; fa, ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn () and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a PersianRitter, H. ( ...

and

Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

reached the peak of development of mystical Mathnawis. Rumi's companions, who gathered at his school, sometimes turned to study of Hadiqat al Haqiqa of

, which Rumi was interested in too.

Sample poem

A poem called ''The truth and the way'' from the book translated to English as follows:

Another Hadiqat

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, there is another book of the same nameو called Hadiqat al Hadiqa, attributed to Ghotb al-Din Mohammad Ibn Motahar Jami (1048-1141 AD). "Ghotb al-Din" is one of

Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaghi-e Torshizi ( fa, احمد ابن ابوالحسن جامی نامقی ترشیزی) (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahma ...

's grandchildren and has included some of his poems in this book. This book was published about a century after Hadiqat al Haqiqa of

and is remarkable by experts. This book, in addition of same name with the book of Sanai, has similarities with Sanai's Hadiqat al Hadiqa in terms of content and general purpose. This "hadiqat" is also a trove and a collection of issues of practical wisdom and mystical manifestations and opinions that have been written due to the necessity of time and to guide the followers. But apart from the resemblance of name and general similarity in content and purpose, these two books have notable differences in language theme and structure. Basically, "Hadiqat of Ghotb al-Din Mohammad Ibn Motahar Jami" is in

prose Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...

form, but "Hadiqat al Haqiqa of

" is in

form. In addition to the linguistic differences, these two works are different in structure and number of chapters. "Sanai's Hadiqat al Haqiqa" has one introduction and ten chapters, while "Hadiqat of Ghotb al-Din Mohammad Ibn Motahar Jami", in addition to the editor's introduction, has fourteen chapters each with seventy one various sections. The character and poems of Sanai Ghaznavi have always been respected and considered, and it is not unlikely that "Ghotb al-Din Mohammad Ibn Motahar Jami" wanted to devise another design of "Hadiqat al Haqiqa" that is appropriate to the language and intellectual needs of his time.

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Scan of the 1910 English translation by J. Stephenson

Sana'i Ghaznavi - The Hadiqat al Haqiqa

THE ENCLOSED GARDEN OF THE TRUTH PDF

Hakim Sanai: The Walled Garden of Truth

* ttps://collections.dma.org/artwork/5341347 Intikhab-i hadiqa (Selection or abridgement of the Hadiqat al-haqiqa of Sana'i)
EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF SANAEE’S MASNAVI HADIQAT AL HAQIQA

SANĀʾI on iranicaonline

Sanai's books on Goodreads

Hakim Sanai Poems
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Sample poem

Another Hadiqat

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