Alahazrat’s Calligraphy

Alahazrat was a skilled calligrapher who also wrote a neat hand, in spite of his swift writing. He was proficient in the Nastáliq and Naskh writing styles, as he has mentioned himself, and his expertise can be gauged from the samples below:

• A calligraphed autobiographical quatrain penned by himself
• Şalawāt he composed extempore with the names of shaykhs in a chain of transmission in taşawwuf.
• Qaşidatān Rāyiýatān: two odes in praise of Shaykh Fađl al-Rasūl Badāyūnī.
• Draft of a treatise on trigonometry