Hasan Sijzi and Shaikh Sharafuddin Ahmad Maneri (A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THEIR MYSTIC THOUGHTS & PERSIAN PROSE)

Amir Najmuddin Hasan ’Ala  Sijzi, a pure Sistan extraction was born in the city ofBadayun(India) in the year 651AH. On completion of early education he shifted toDelhiand joined in the service of Prince Mohammad son of Balban. Hasan’s circle of friends included, the genius of that time, Amir Khusrau and the talented chronicler, Diauddin Barni. Through Amir Khusrau, Hasan became a favourite disciple of Hazrat Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya. His book entitled “Fawaidul Fuwad” is regarded as the best account of Hazrat Nizamuddin. Amir Khusrau had expressed his cravings to offer all his prose and poetical works to Hasan in view of his Fawaidul Fuwad. The emotional fervour and melody possessed of elegant manners in his lyrial poetry (Ghazals) earned him the title of “Sa’di-i-Hind”.
Makhdumul Mulk Hazrat Shaikh Sharfuddin Ahmad Maneri (born.661AH), a contemporary of Hasan sijzi, who hailed from BiharprovinceofIndia, was an erudite scholar, a renowned and celebrated mystic as well as a stalwart Persian Prose writer. His spiritual thoughts and didactical mystic writings are reckoned and regarded with great esteem all the world over. His works consist of four catagories viz. Talifat, Maktubat, Rasail and Malfuzat. There exist three sets of his Maktubat, Fourteen Rasail, Ten Collection of  his Malfuzat while only one book entitled Matalib-ut-Talib is obtainable.
In the full length article, it has been endeavoured to present a comparative study of the mystic thoughts of the two celebrities and also an estimate of their Persian Prose styles.