Pir-e-Charkh Biography and Literary Works Our Master Yaqub Charkhi

A great village, Charkh, one of the suburbs of province Luger inAfghanistan, is the birthplace of our master Yaqub Charkhi. One of theGnostics and Quran commentators of the 9th A.H century, our masterCharkhi was Khaje Baha-al-Din Naghshband’s disciple. He was a learnedman of outward and inward knowledge. According to the documentKhazineye al-Asfia he passed away in 851 A.H and his tomb in the village“Helffo” (Helftor) of the today Tajikistan, at a distance of about 5 kilometerfrom the city Dushanbe is the place of pilgrimage of everyone, individualsand groups. He travelled to Bokhara, Herat and Egypt to study and completehis knowledge. Until 791 A.H, when Khaje Baha-al-Din Naghshband passedaway he was in Bokhara. Some of the literary works left from Charkhi are:(1) Asma-al-Hosna treatise which is an unknown work of Charkhi and iskept in Pakistan as a handwritten manuscript. (2) Commentary on Surah(chapter of Quran) Fatehe and the last two section of Quran written in alearned and mystical style and published in India and Pakistan. (3) Naeiyehtreatise in expanding the preface of Mathnavi Manavi and the tale of the kingand the bondmaid and the story of Sheykh Daghoughi and Sadr Jahan andSheykh Mohammad Sarzari. (4) Abdalieh treatise which is a brief paper inproving the existence of masters and their degree written based on Hojviri’sbook entitled Kashf-al-Mahjoub.