An Introduction to the Letters of Imam-e-Rabbani

معرفی مکتوبات امام ربانیؒ

Abstract

 Imam-e-Rabbani Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi was a very famous and most prominent Sufi saint and scholar of the 17 century A.D of Naqshbandi Sufi doctrine of India. The collection of his 536 letters are counted as a very basic, major and very important document on account of Islamic mysticism. This article covers a brief introduction of Shaikh Ahmed and his letters covering their publications and translations ever done. After that, the writer of this article has given a very brief literary and linguistic analysis of the first hundred Persian letters of Imam-e-Rabbani, discussing the literary importance and the most prominent and distinguished qualities of these letters, which is very useful in understanding the personality and the writing style of Shaikh Ahmed Sirhindi.