Tariq ut-tahqiq

Tariq ut-tahqiq is one of the books attributed to Sanai. It is an Early New Persian mystical poetry book from 1133 in mathnawi form.^[1]^[2] This book was published in Persian by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi as 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

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b Bo Utas, A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, Curzon Press, 1977.