Risalah Ramadaniyya


Risalah Arabic is the Arabic word for a treatise or philosophical prose within Islam. In Tayyibi Isma'ilism, Rasāʾil Ramaḍāniyya refers to the works composed by the Da'i al-Mutlaq for the most part during the month of Ramadan.

Style

Each Risalah is essentially divided into two sections: the first contains supplication and eulogy, and the second, a variety of topics that generally conforms to the overarching theme of the Risalah. Each Risalah is given a title gematrically equivalent to the Hijri year of its publication: "The context of the quoted texts is not left to the reader to determine, as in the two above-mentioned anthologies. Each text is preceded or followed by a commentary placing it within a specific theme or issue, such as the daʿwa hierarchy under the imams and dāʿīs, the nature of the authority of the dāʿī and the daʿwa dignitaries, and the role and place of the believers in this world. In addition, each Risāla begins with the traditional introductory taḥmīd, original poems in praise of the Prophet and the imams, and extensive supplications showing a rhetorical mastery of the Arabic language. The Risālas typically end with opinions on legal matters by the author or by previous dāʿīs and daʿwa dignitaries."

Authors

Syedna Taher Saifuddin

Syedna Taher Saifuddin "probably had more Ismāʿīlī texts at his disposal than any other Ṭayyibī scholar before him. The wealth and variety of quoted texts make the Rasāʾil al-Ramaḍāniyya a treasure trove of writings, which are otherwise inaccessible to non-initiates and low-ranking daʿwa officials."
A set of the Rasāʾil were presented to the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford on behalf of Syedna Taher Saifuddin 12 July 1949.
IDTitleTitle HijriPub.Year
STS 01ضوء نور الحق المبينḌawʾ nūr al-ḥaqq al-mubīn1335
STS 02ثمرات علوم الهدىThamarāt ʿulūm al-hudā1337
STS 03زهر الرياض الازليةZahr al-riyāḍ al-azaliyya1338
STS 04درر البشارتDurar al-bišhārāt1339
STS 05المشرب الكوثريAl-Mašhrab al-kawtharī1340
STS 06درر الهدى المضيئةDurar al-hudā al-muḍīʾa1341
STS 07روض عالم القدسRawḍ ʿālam al-quds1342
STS 08غرفة جنةĠurfat Janna1343
STS 09غرة الحقĠurrat al-ḥaqq1344-
STS 10ثمار جنات عدن طيبةṮimār Jannāt ʿadnin ṭayyiba1345
STS 11قطف شجرة خلديةQaṭf šaǧara ḫuldiyya1346
STS 12زبدة برهان الصدق الواضحZubdat burhān al-ṣidq al-wāḍiḥ1347
STS 13صبغ نورṢibġ nūr1348
STS 14غرس الجنةĠars al-ǧanna1349
STS 15درر اسرار اْل الكرارDurar asrār āl al-Karrār1350
STS 16نور روض الجنةNūr rawḍ al-ǧanna1351
STS 17بحر فضل كبيرBaḥr faḍl kabīr1352
STS 18مسرات الفتح المبينMasarrat al-fatḥ al-mubīn1353
STS 19الباب حظيرة القدسAl-Bāb ḥaẓīrat al-quds1354
STS 20كرامة العقول الوضيةKarāmat al-ʿuqūl al-waḍiyya1355
STS 21صفحات عرفات المعارفṢafḥat ʿarafāt al-maʿārif1356
STS 22انهار رياض الجنةAnhār riyāḍ al-ǧanna1357
STS 23سحب بركات الخلدSuḥub barakāt al-ḫuld1358
STS 24ذات البركةḎāt al-baraka1359
STS 25كوثر خلدKawṯar ḫuld1360
STS 26روضة فردوسRawḍat firdaws1361
STS 27دلو غدير حقDalw Ġadīr ḥaqq1362
STS 28مشربة تسنيم نورMašrabat tasnīm nūr1363
STS 29سلسبيل حكم غدقSalsabīl ḥikam ġadaq1364
STS 30سرر رشد مرفوعةSurar rušd Marfūʿa1365
STS 31صور حوض مورودṢuwar ḥawḍ mawrūd1366
STS 32تكبير سكينة فتح مبينTakbīr sakīnat fatḥ mubīn1367
STS 33فلسفة فوز عظيمFalsafat fawz ʿaẓīm1368
STS 34تذكرة لبيبTaḏkirat labīb1369
STS 35سلسلة نعمة عظمىSilsilat o Nemat 8in Uzma1370
STS 36نعم الصبغة الالهيةNeam us Sibghat il Ilahiya1371
STS 37خزائن امام المتقينKhazain o Imam il Muttaqeen1372
STS 38مفاتيح الياقوتة الحمراءMafateeh ul Yaqootat il Hamra1373
STS 39نهر النور الشعشعانيNahr un Noor ish Shashani1374
STS 40بلاغ الدعاة الفاطميينBalagh ud Duat il Fatemiyyeen1375
STS 41اشعة الفيض الازليAsheat ul Faiz il Azali1376
STS 42امثال سدرة المنتهىAmṯāl sidrat al-muntahā1377
STS 43روضة دار السلامRawḍat dār al-Salām137819.07.1430H2009
STS 44توحيد الملة البيضاءTawḥīd al-Millah al-Bayḍāʾ137919.07.1431H2010
STS 45بركات اصحاب التطهيرBarakāt Aṣḥāb al-Taṭhīr138019.09.1432H2011
STS 46كمال النعم السابغةKamāl al-Niam al-Sābiġa138114332012
STS 47تسبيح ذهب القدسTasbīḥ ḏahab al-Quds138223.09.1434H2013
STS 48شموس بركات الربانيينShumūs Barakāt al-Rabbāniyīn138323.09.1435H2015
STS 49انهار فيوض الفاطميينAnhār Fūyūz al-Fātimiyyīn138410.12.1436H2016