New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 69
  • Details
  • Transcriptions
  • Translations
Details

Details

Firuzkuh 69
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Letter

Physical Description

paper
Complete , black ink, water damage in right margin.
5

Content

The sender is writing to a religious figure requesting him: 1) to pray for a friend whose slave has gone missing, and has made a vow with God for the slave’s safe return; 2) to pray for the strengthening of the sender’s own faith.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
None

People

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 112-113)
    The IEDC transcription has been revised from this publication.

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

1156
24/01/2025
25/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
The transcription has been revised from a previous publication (see Publications), the translation is the original work of the IEDC Team (as yet unpublished in peer-review print)
See 'How to Cite'
Images of this Text displayed on this web page are provided by Nabi Saqee.
© Nabi Saqee, All rights reserved.
If you wish to reproduce these images please contact Nabi Saqee.

Contact

invisible_east@conted.ox.ac.uk (Please include the above permalink when contacting the editorial team about this Text)
Folios
1. recto
Transcription
Folio:
 [؟] 1
 ایزد تعالی توفیق [بـ]ـر [+ 1] مولا[نـ]ـا برکات کناد 2
 بندۀ است نذری دارذ غایب دعا 3
[آن (؟)] دوست می کند تا خدای تعالی بران 4
نذر بسلامت باز رساند دعا فرماید 5
ان شا الله مستجاب باشد 6
دیگر هم بجهت توفیق طاعت 7
دعا فرماید تا خدای تعالی توفیق 8
طاعت این بنده را ارزانی فرماید 9
 ان شا الله وحده 10
Translation
Folio:
1 [Bismillah ?]
2 May God almighty bless the mawlānā with good fortune.
3 There is a missing slave. [His owner] has made a vow [with God].
4 That friend is praying, so that God almighty
5 returns [the slave to him] in safety, through this vow. Please pray [for him].
6 God willing, it shall be accepted.
7 In addition, please also pray [to strengthen my] obedience [to God],
8 so that God almighty 
9 graces this slave with obedience.
10 God willing. [Praise be to God] alone.
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 69: Folio (recto)
Images courtesy of Nabi Saqee