Makhzan ol-Asrar

Makhzan ol-Asrar
Makhzan ol-Asrar
by Nizami Ganjavi
	Makhzan ol-Asrar, Going to visit Dervish
Original title	مخزن‌الاسرار
Translator	Gholam H. Darab
Language	Persian
Subject(s)	self-knowledge; theology; mysticism;
Publication date	12th century

Makhzan ol-Asrar or Makhzan al-Asrar (Persian: مخزن‌الاسرار, means: 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 best known work of Nizami Ganjavi called Khamsa of Nizami and one of the prominent examples of didactic literature. This Mathnawi has about 2,250 Persian distichs and it was completed at the age of forty of Nizami Ganjavi and since then it has always been considered one of the most important poetic and written works in Persian literature.^[2]^[3]

It starts with this distich:^[4]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هست کلید در گنج حکیم

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
It (the phrase / the name of God) is the key to the treasury of The Wise

^ Darab, Gholam Hossein. Treasury of Mysteries, translation of Makhzanol Asrar. (London:. Arthur Probsthain, 1945).
^ JTP de Bruijn. Persian Sufi Poetry, An Introduction to the Mystical – Taylor and Francis (Routledge) 1997 pp. 97–98
^ کتاب مخزن الاسرار حکیم نظامی گنجه_ای [چ1] -کتاب گیسوم (in Persian). قطره،. 1997. ISBN 978-964-5958-38-9. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ نظامی, الیاس بن یوسف; دستگردی, وحید. مخزن الاسرار (in Persian). تهران: قطره.

[en-1] Darab, Gholam Hossein. Treasury of Mysteries, translation of Makhzanol Asrar. (London:. Arthur Probsthain, 1945).

[JTP-2] JTP de Bruijn. Persian Sufi Poetry, An Introduction to the Mystical – Taylor and Francis (Routledge) 1997 pp. 97–98

[moa5-3] کتاب مخزن الاسرار حکیم نظامی گنجه_ای [چ1] -کتاب گیسوم (in Persian). قطره،. 1997. ISBN 978-964-5958-38-9. Retrieved 6 May 2021.

[moa1-4] نظامی, الیاس بن یوسف; دستگردی, وحید. مخزن الاسرار (in Persian). تهران: قطره.

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