An Accomplished Writer

The expressing of his love and devotion to Islam and to the Prophet's family is legendary. Syedna Taher Saifuddin penned thousands of couplets of elegiac devotional poetry. Munajaat, his poetical supplications recited on the night of Qadr in Ramadan alone amount to thousands of couplets each of which so potent with dedication as to bring spontaneous tears to the reader. Each Ramadan, he would produce a volume (risala), written in an innovative style and comprising summaries of previously known information, new religious decisions based upon contemporary circumstances as well as heart-rending invocations to the Prophet's family, to whom all knowledge is attributed. The collection of 48 such volumes, called Risala Ramadaniyah, has added its own unique resplendence to the priceless books of the Dawat.

His command on the Arabic language was so comprehensive that in some volumes, entire tracts have been written without the use of a particular letter or even sets of letters of the Arabic alphabet. No scholarly enterprise in Fatimi philosophy would be complete without reference to these volumes.