ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>P&#256RAS BH&#256G</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279<i>P&#256RAS BH&#256G</i> is an adaptation into S&#257dh Bh&#257kh&#257, in Gurmukh&#299 script, of Abu Ham&#299d Muhammad al-<u>Gh</u>azz&#257l&#299's <i>K&#299m&#299&#257 i-Sa'&#257dat</i>, an abridged edition in Urdu of his <i>Ihy&#257 ul-'Ul&#363m</i>, in Arabic. The work was first published in 1876. Several of the manuscript copies prior to that date are still in circulation. An edition in Devan&#257gar&#299 script was brought out in 1929. The question as to who adapted the work into Bh&#257kh&#257 and when has not been fully resolved. According to one tradition, the version in Gurmukh&#299 characters was prepared towards the close of the seventeenth century at Anandpur by Sayyid Badr ud-D&#299n of Sa&#7693haur&#257 at the instance of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh (1666-1708). According to another, it was translated a little before the middle of the eighteenth century by a Sev&#257panth&#299 saint &#8212 either Bh&#257&#299 A&#7693&#7693a&#7751 Sh&#257h or Bh&#257&#299 G&#257&#7771&#363. The book is held in great veneration by Sev&#257panth&#299 Sikhs who recite it up to this day in their <i>&#7693er&#257s</i> or monasteries. The work originally written in the eleventh century was meant for the edification of the Muslims laying down for them moral and social injunctions. These stipulations represent a mixture of lslamic, S&#363f&#299 and Ved&#257ntic principles and thus have a wide appeal. The main stress is on loving devotion to God and on right conduct.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Dharam Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>