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Sayyed Ali Bin Usman Al Hujwiri popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh is a much revered Sufi of great repute. He contributed a lot to spread the true message of Islam to the masses of the Punjab through his larger than life character. Besides preaching he also wrote some books on different disciplines of Islam of which is his famous treatise named Kashf Al Mahjub.

Since his work on Sufism presented in this book is of encyclopedic nature and a simple but comprehensive one it soon attracted the attention of both his contemporaries and posterity. This is why the orientalist also turned to translate it into different European languages especially in English. The paper is an articulation of critical study of different translations of the book. Kashf Al-Mahjub unveiling of the veiled is the oldest treatise on Islamic mysticism Sufism written by Sayyed Ali bin Uthman al-Hujwiri Popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh.

Kashf al-Mahjub is the first comprehensive book in Persian language on Tasawwuf. Prince Muhammad Dara Shikoh d 1069 A.H. speaks of this book as follows: of the books on Sufism in the Persian language there is none so well composed as the Kashf Al-Mahjub.