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The key theme of this book is a Shī
ī interpretation of the Mirāj of the Prophet Muhammad and his spiritual dīdār with Alī, who is described as the essence of prophethood (nubuwwat) and the Imamate (Imāmat or wilāyat). In the second poem, which consists of eighteen chapters (1800 bayts), the discourse is articulated around some theological issues, such as the creation of the world and human beings. Mubārak’s main argument is that a human being is a drop (qatra) in the ocean (bahr) of divine light and that it surely will return to its origin sooner or later; therefore the essential obligation of the human being is to remember (dhikr) the Lord constantly in order to make that return easier. The original manuscript is in the private collection of 
asan Abdulatkhonov from Yamg.
MSS 09 (1320/1902), Dīvān-i Kulliyāt (Collection of Poems) is Mubārak’s essential lyrical composition on various topics, which includes 192 rubāīs (383 bayts), 883 ghazals (8417 bayts), 5 qa
ida (228 bayts), 8 tarjī-band (415 bayts), 30 mukhammas (688 bayts), 6 mukhammas-mustazād (1252), 34 munqabāt (532 bayts), 5 nāma
bu (904 bayts), 13 mustazād (407 bayts), and 1 sāqī-nāma (255 bayts). The original manuscript is in the private collection of Lutfullah Zaraboev from Yamg.In 1912 one of Mubārak’s students, Ābid-i-Tughgāzī, edited the poet’s Kulliyāt into a form of Bayāz, including 12 tarjī-band, (792 bayts), 5 mustazād (270 bayts), 22 mukhammas (638 bayts) and 97 munqabāt (1242 bayts).
MSS 10, Dīvān-i Ashār (Collection of Poetry) is a collection of lyric poems, mainly consisting of ghazals (4950 bayts) and rubāīs (206 bayts) on different topics, including divine love and the human effort required to gain it through selfless devotion and asceticism. The original manuscript is with Zaraboev, and an early photocopy of it is preserved in the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Studies, under the class mark C-1559.
MSS 11 is simply called Dīvān, and is a collection of various poems, including one of Mubārak’s complementary poems, Tughrā-yi Sultānī, which concerns the forty eighth Ismāīlī Imam, Sir Sul
ān Muammad-Shāh (1877–1957). In addition to poetry, the manuscript also contains some panegyric invocations (munājāt). The original copy is in the private collection of Lutfullah Zaraboev from Yamg.