The writings of Haji...

The writings of Haji, of which a complete list is available, are as follows: Al-Laali , Arabic poem on logic; Ghurar al-Faraid or the Sharh-i Manzumah , Arabic poem with commentary on Hikmat ; Diwan in Persian written under the pen name Asrar; commentary upon the prayer Dua-i Kabir;[^4] commentary upon the prayer Dua-i Sabah ; Asrar al-Hikam , written at the request of Nasir al-Din Shah, on Hikmat ; commentaries upon the Asfar , the Mafatih al-Ghaib , al-Mabda wal-Maad , and al-Shawahid al-Rububiyyah of Mulla Sadra; glosses upon the commentary of Suyuti upon the Alfiyyah of ibn Malik, on grammar; commentary upon the Mathnawi of Jalal al-Din Rumi; commentary upon the Nibras , on the mysteries of worship; commentary upon the divine names; glosses upon the Sharh-i Tajrid of Lahiji; Rah Qarah and Rahiq in rhetoric; Hidayat al-Talibin , as yet an unpublished treatise in Persian on prophethood and the imamate; questions and answers regarding gnosis; and a treatise on the debate between Mulla Muhsin Faid and Shaikh Ahmad Ahsai.[^5] Of these writings the most famous is the Sharh-i Manzumah , which, along with the Asfar of Mulla Sadra, the Shifa of ibn Sina, and the Sharh al-Isharat of Nasir al-Din Tusi, is the basic text on Hikmat .

This work consists of a series of poems on the essential questions of Hikmat composed in 1239/1823 on which Haji himself wrote a commentary along with glosses in 1260/1844. The book contains a complete summary of Hikmat in precise and orderly form.

This work has been so popular that during the hundred years that have passed since its composition many commentaries have been written upon it including those of Muhammad Hidaji and the late Mirza Mehdi Ashtiyani as well as that of Muhammad Taqi Amuli whose commentary called the Durar al-Fawaid is perhaps the most comprehensive of all.

The other writings of Haji, especially the Asrar al-Hikam which is of special interest because, as Haji himself writes in the introduction, it is a book concerned with the Hikmat derived from the Islamic revelation ( hikmat-i imani ) and not just with Greek philosophy ( hikmat-i yunani ), and the commentary upon the Mathnawi are also of much importance, but the fame of Haji is due primarily to his Sharh-i Manzumah .