A Gnan by Pir Hasan Kabīru'd-dīn


1 - The last gnan from the collection of 100 gnans forming part V.

2 - It is explained that the "iron wall" (perhaps really "front" between two hostile armies) appeared before the Pir as a punishment for his neglect. He did not take with him his five years old son, the future Pir , Hasan Kabiru'ddīn. The date seems to be surprisingly early.

3 - It is obviously the same 'Abdu's-Salām Shāh, mentioned above (p. 106). As Kahak is not far from Anjudąn, in which he resided, it is quite probable that at least temporarily, he might have resided there.

4 - Imam Bu Dharr Ali flourished towards the end of the tenth/sixteenth c., more than a hundred years after the death of Hasan Kabiru'd-din.

5 - I could find no indication as to whether such village existed at the time. Was it War?

6 - Imam Dhū'l-fiqār Ali died in 1043/1634, in Anjudān, and was buried in the family necropolis there. The names of the later Imams were most probably inserted by the translators, in order to bring the poem up-to-date.

7 - The date must obviously be imaginary. There is no village called Vircha now. Perhaps it is the same as War, half way between Kahak and Mallallāt?

8 - Nur Shah must be a honorific title, not a personal name. Perhaps it is simply a "blank space" left for the later Imam, to be inserted by the reader when reciting the gnan ?