An early text on 'Malfuzat', meaning the conversations of sufi saints, is the _____.

Fawa'id-al-Fu'ad

The correct answer is Option (3) → Fawa'id-al-Fu'ad

An early text on 'Malfuzat', meaning the conversations of sufi saints, is the Fawa'id-al-Fu'ad.

Malfuzat (literally, “uttered”; conversations of sufi saints) – An early text on malfuzat is the Fawa’id-al-Fu’ad, a collection of 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; these had obvious didactic purposes. Several examples have been found from different parts of the subcontinent, including the Deccan. They were compiled over several centuries.