# Risalah Ramadaniyya

Risalah Arabic (رسـالـة) 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 (epistle) 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 (ḥudūd), 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.
| ID | Title | Title (English) | Hijri | Pub. | Year |
| STS 01 | ضوء نور الحق المبين | Ḍawʾ nūr al-ḥaqq al-mubīn | 1335 | | |
| STS 02 | ثمرات علوم الهدى | Thamarāt ʿulūm al-hudā | 1337 | | |
| STS 03 | زهر الرياض الازلية | Zahr al-riyāḍ al-azaliyya | 1338 | | |
| STS 04 | درر البشارت | Durar al-bišhārāt | 1339 | | |
| STS 05 | المشرب الكوثري | Al-Mašhrab al-kawtharī | 1340 | | |
| STS 06 | درر الهدى المضيئة | Durar al-hudā al-muḍīʾa | 1341 | | |
| STS 07 | روض عالم القدس | Rawḍ ʿālam al-quds | 1342 | | |
| STS 08 | غرفة جنة | Ġurfat Janna | 1343 | | |
| STS 09 | غرة الحق | Ġurrat al-ḥaqq | 1344 | | |
| STS 10 | ثمار جنات عدن طيبة | Ṯimār Jannāt ʿadnin ṭayyiba | 1345 | | |
| STS 11 | قطف شجرة خلدية | Qaṭf šaǧara ḫuldiyya | 1346 | | |
| STS 12 | زبدة برهان الصدق الواضح | Zubdat burhān al-ṣidq al-wāḍiḥ | 1347 | | |
| STS 13 | صبغ نور | Ṣibġ nūr | 1348 | | |
| STS 14 | غرس الجنة | Ġars al-ǧanna | 1349 | | |
| STS 15 | درر اسرار اْل الكرار | Durar asrār āl al-Karrār | 1350 | | |
| STS 16 | نور روض الجنة | Nūr rawḍ al-ǧanna | 1351 | | |
| STS 17 | بحر فضل كبير | Baḥr faḍl kabīr | 1352 | | |
| STS 18 | مسرات الفتح المبين | Masarrat al-fatḥ al-mubīn | 1353 | | |
| STS 19 | الباب حظيرة القدس | Al-Bāb ḥaẓīrat al-quds | 1354 | | |
| STS 20 | كرامة العقول الوضية | Karāmat al-ʿuqūl al-waḍiyya | 1355 | | |
| STS 21 | صفحات عرفات المعارف | Ṣafḥat ʿarafāt al-maʿārif | 1356 | | |
| STS 22 | انهار رياض الجنة | Anhār riyāḍ al-ǧanna | 1357 | | |
| STS 23 | سحب بركات الخلد | Suḥub barakāt al-ḫuld | 1358 | | |
| STS 24 | ذات البركة | Ḏāt al-baraka | 1359 | | |
| STS 25 | كوثر خلد | Kawṯar ḫuld | 1360 | | |
| STS 26 | روضة فردوس | Rawḍat firdaws | 1361 | | |
| STS 27 | دلو غدير حق | Dalw Ġadīr ḥaqq | 1362 | | |
| STS 28 | مشربة تسنيم نور | Mašrabat tasnīm nūr | 1363 | | |
| STS 29 | سلسبيل حكم غدق | Salsabīl ḥikam ġadaq | 1364 | | |
| STS 30 | سرر رشد مرفوعة | Surar rušd Marfūʿa | 1365 | | |
| STS 31 | صور حوض مورود | Ṣuwar ḥawḍ mawrūd | 1366 | | |
| STS 32 | تكبير سكينة فتح مبين | Takbīr sakīnat fatḥ mubīn | 1367 | | |
| STS 33 | فلسفة فوز عظيم | Falsafat fawz ʿaẓīm | 1368 | | |
| STS 34 | تذكرة لبيب | Taḏkirat labīb | 1369 | | |
| STS 35 | سلسلة نعمة عظمى | Silsilat o Nemat 8in Uzma | 1370 | | |
| STS 36 | نعم الصبغة الالهية | Neam us Sibghat il Ilahiya | 1371 | | |
| STS 37 | خزائن امام المتقين | Khazain o Imam il Muttaqeen | 1372 | | |
| STS 38 | مفاتيح الياقوتة الحمراء | Mafateeh ul Yaqootat il Hamra | 1373 | | |
| STS 39 | نهر النور الشعشعاني | Nahr un Noor ish Shashani | 1374 | | |
| STS 40 | بلاغ الدعاة الفاطميين | Balagh ud Duat il Fatemiyyeen | 1375 | | |
| STS 41 | اشعة الفيض الازلي | Asheat ul Faiz il Azali | 1376 | | |
| STS 42 | امثال سدرة المنتهى | Amṯāl sidrat al-muntahā | 1377 | | |
| STS 43 | روضة دار السلام | Rawḍat dār al-Salām | 1378 | 19.07.1430H | 2009 |
| STS 44 | توحيد الملة البيضاء | Tawḥīd al-Millah al-Bayḍāʾ | 1379 | 19.07.1431H | 2010 |
| STS 45 | بركات اصحاب التطهير | Barakāt Aṣḥāb al-Taṭhīr | 1380 | 19.09.1432H | 2011 |
| STS 46 | كمال النعم السابغة | Kamāl al-Niam al-Sābiġa | 1381 | 1433 | 2012 |
| STS 47 | تسبيح ذهب القدس | Tasbīḥ ḏahab al-Quds | 1382 | 23.09.1434H | 2013 |
| STS 48 | شموس بركات الربانيين | Shumūs Barakāt al-Rabbāniyīn | 1383 | 23.09.1435H | 2015 |
| STS 49 | انهار فيوض الفاطميين | Anhār Fūyūz al-Fātimiyyīn | 1384 | 10.12.1436H | 2016 |

### Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin

| ID | Title | Title (English) | Hijri | Pub. | Year |
| SMB00 | حكمة الغيبة الحقيقية | Hikmat al-Ghaybah al-Haqiqiyyah | 1385H | 19.07.1430H | 2009 |
| SMB01 | استفتاح زبد المعارف | Isteftah Zubad al-Ma'arif | 1385H | 1386H | |
| SMB02 | فيوضات الجنة | Fuyoodhaat al-Jannah | 1386H | 19.07.1430H | 2009 |
| SMB03 | سلام نضرة النعيم | Salaam Nadrah al-Na'eem | 1387H | 19.07.1431H | 2010 |
| SMB04 | ذات النور | Zaat al-Noor | 1388H | 19.09.1432H | 2011 |
| SMB05 | ظهور مجد الفاطميين | Zuhoor Majd al-Fatimiyeen | 1389H | 1433H | 2012 |
| SMB06 | بركة صبغة الله | Barakah Sibghah Allah | 1390H | 23.09.1434H | 2013 |
| SMB07 | نشر الخير | Nashr al-Khayr | 1391H | 01.10.1437H | 2017 |
| SMB08 | ندى الفيوضات | Nadā al-Fūyūdāt | 1392H | 01.10.1438H | 2018 |
| SMB09 | سلسبيل روض القدس | Salsabīl Rawd al-Quds | 1393H | 01.10.1439H | 2019 |
| SMB10 | بركات دعاة الستر | Barakāt Duāt al-Satr | 1394H | 01.10.1440H | 2020 |

### Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin

| ID | Title | Title (English) | Hijri | Pub | Year |
| SMS00 | حكمة الغيبة القدسانية الابدية | Hikmah al-Ghaybah al-Qudsāniyyah al-Abadiyyah | 1435H | 19.07.1436H | 2015 |
| SMS01 | شكر نعم اصحاب البركات | Shukr Ne’am As’hāb al-Barakāt | 1436H | 27.06.1437H | 2016 |
| SMS02 | جامعة ثمرات العلوم | Jāmiʿah Samarāt al-ʿUlūm | 1437H | 27.06.1438H | 2017 |
| SMS03 | فيوضات يمنية طيبة | Fūyūdāt Yamaniyyah Taiyyebah | 1438H | 27.06.1439H | 2018 |
| SMS04 | ملتقى سفينة البركات | Multaqā Safīnah al-Barakāt | 1439H | 27.06.1440H | 2019 |
| SMS05 | دفينة مفاخر ال النبي الطهر | Dafīnah Mafākhir āl al-Nabi al-Tuhr | 1440H | 19.07.1441H | 2020 |