بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
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Abdullah — A Servant of God
The Biography of Hazrat Bahr-ul-Uloom
Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui (Hasrat)
عبداللہ (اک بندۂ خدا)
The complete original Urdu edition (659 pp., in three downloadable parts) is freely available while the English translation is under scholarly review.
Front Matter
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Title Page
Epigraph, publication details & colophon
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Publisher's Note
Arz-e-Nashir — Ḥasrat Academy, 2004
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Introduction
Muqaddamah by Abū'l-Fayḍ Muḥammad Anwāruddīn
Chapters
1
Paternal Genealogy
Silsila-e-Nasab — 22 pages
2
Maternal Lineage
Nanhiyaal — 34 pages
3
The Life
Ḥayāt — Hayaat
4
Bay'ah, Guidance & Direction
Bay'ah, Rashd wa Hidāyat
5
Children & Descendants
Aulād wa Aḥfād
6
Scholarly Services
ʿIlmī Khidmāt — Qurʾān, Ḥadīth & Fiqh
7
Scholarly Pursuits & the Women's Lessons
ʿIlmī Mashāghil wa Zanāna Dars
8
The Annual Sermons
Sālāna Mawāʿiẓ — Mīlād, Miʿrāj & the Ṭarīqas
9
Literary & Poetic Creations
Takhlīqāt-e-Shāʿirī
10
His Mode of Thought
Andāz-e-Fikr wa Nuqṭa-e-Naẓar
11
Dealings with the Nobility
Umarāʾ se Muʿāmalāt
12
Counsels & Guidance
Naṣāʾiḥ wa Hidāyāt
13
Common Petitioners & Everyday Matters
ʿĀm Ahl-e-Gharaḍ wa Masāʾil
14
The Martial Arts
Funūn-e-Ḥarb
15
The Science of Music
Fann-e-Mūsīqī
16
Sage Counsels
Irshādāt-e-Ḥakīmāna — 325 aphorisms
17
In the Eyes of the Learned
Ahl-e-Dānish kī Naẓar — testimonials
18
Family Trees
Khāndānī Shajre — genealogical charts
19
Chains of Initiation & the Successors
Salāsil-e-Bayʿat wa Khulafāʾ