RISALAYI MARGHUBA

My mother's grandfather, Mulla Olim, rahmatullahi alayh, was one of the murshids of the Naqshbandi path. During the former Soviet colonial period he guided people toward religion and morals. Because he was on the path of truth, he suffered Soviet oppression — prison and exile — for twenty years. This man, our great-grandfather on our mother's side, taught his disciples and his children on the basis of primary sources. In particular, the book "Risalayi marghuba" by the scholar Mulla AbdulQodir Toshkandi served as his curriculum. My mother's mother, that is, our grandmother, gave us this book a year ago. It turned out to be the 4th edition, printed at the Ghulomiya printing house in 1913. On the last pages the book's readers are asked to correct any errors with the eye of reason. The copy our grandmother gave us had been read so much that it was worn to shreds. It turned out that it had been left to our grandmother by her late elder sister, to whom our great-grandfather had given it as a gift. Your humble servant took up the book with great interest.