Shams ul Arifeen English Translation with Persian Text/Preface

Shams-ul-Arifeen (The enlightening sun for the Knowers of Allah)is a collection of important topics selected from eight of Sultan Bahoo’s books i.e. Kaleed-ul-Tauheed, Qurb-e-Deedar, Majmoa-tul-Fazal, Aqal-e-Beydar, Jamay-ul-Asrar, Noor-ul-Huda, Ain Numa and Fazal-ul-Laqa. It is compiled by Sultan Bahoo's son Sultan Wali Mohammad for the ease of the seekers of Allah who seek guidance from the books of Sultan Bahoo. It contains the essence of eight of his books, rather is a summary of all his books. Sultan Wali Mohammad has not added or changed any word, he has just selected and compiled the original pieces of writing. So, Shams-ul-Arifeenis considered as the book of Sultan Bahoo. Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo was the scholar of Divine Knowledge. My Murshid, Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Khadim Sultan-ul-Faqr Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman, who is the spiritual descendant of Sultan Bahoo and the present Shaikh of his Sarwari Qadri Order, conferred on me the honour of translating Sultan Bahoo’s books into English. To translate Shams-ul-Arifeen he provided me its manuscript written by Shahbaz-e-Arifaan Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Pir Syed Mohammad Bahadur Ali Shah who was also the Shaikh of Sarwari Qadri Order and lived during the period 1801-1934. He spent almost forty years of his life at the shrine of Sultan Bahoo and during the stay he copied and saved most of the books of Sultan Bahoo. The manuscript of Shams-ul-Arifeen was written by him in Ramazan 1915 (1330 Hijri). There are some other manuscripts of Shams-ul-Arifeen available but the manuscript of Pir Bahadur Ali Shah is the most authentic because he was also the spiritual successor of Sultan Bahoo.