The correct answer is Option (2) → Kashf-ul-Mahjub of Ali bin Usman Hujwiri
Option (1) Fawa'id-al-Fu'ad compiled by Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi — Incorrect. This is a malfuzat, the conversations of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, compiled by a noted Persian poet. It records a saint's talks with his circle.
Option (2) Kashf-ul-Mahjub of Ali bin Usman Hujwiri — Correct. The Kashf-ul-Mahjub is a treatise or manual on sufi thought and practice. It lets historians see how traditions outside the subcontinent influenced sufi thought in India.
Option (3) Maktubat-i Imam Rabbani of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi — Incorrect. These are maktubat, letters of a Naqshbandi shaikh. They show his religious experience and the life conditions of the people he wrote to.
Option (4) Akhbar-ul-Akhyar of Abdul Haqq Muhaddis Dehlavi — Incorrect. This is a tazkira, a biographical account of saints. Such works try to glorify the spiritual line of their own order.
NCERT (2026-27): “9. Reconstructing Histories of Religious Traditions …
A wide range of texts were produced in and around sufi These included: 1.Treatises or manuals dealing with sufi thought and practices – The Kashf-ul-Mahjub of Ali bin Usman Hujwiri (died c. 1071) is an example of this genre. It enables historians to see how traditions outside the subcontinent influenced sufi thought in India. 2. Malfuzat (literally, “uttered”; conversations of sufi saints) – An early text on malfuzat is the Fawa’id-al-Fu’ad conversations of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, compiled by Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, a noted Persian poet. Source 9 contains an excerpt from this text. Malfuzats were compiled by different sufi silsilas with the permission of the shaikhs didactic purposes. Several examples have been found from different parts of the subcontinent, including the Deccan. They were compiled over several centuries. 3. Maktubat (literally, “written” collections of letters); letters written by sufi masters, addressed to their disciples and associates – While these tell us about the of religious truth that he wanted to share with others, they also reflect the life conditions of the recipients and are responses to their aspirations and difficulties, both spiritual and mundane. The letters, known as Maktubat-i Imam Rabbani seventeenth-century Naqshbandi Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (d.1624), whose ideology is often contrasted with the liberal and non-sectarian views of Akbar, are amongst those most frequently discussed by scholars. …” |
