"SHAIK SHARFUDDIN HAZRAT BU ALI SHAH QALANDER"
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"KHWAJA BANDANAWAZ GAYSU DARAAZ R.A."
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| He was the descendant of Hazrat Ali. His forefathers resided in Hirat. One of them came to Delhi and settled down here. Sheikh Muhammad was born here on 4, Rajab, 721 Hijri. His father Syed Yousuf-bin-Ali alias Syed Raja was a holy figure and devoted to Hazrat Nizam Uddin Aulia. Sultan Muhammad-bin Tughlaq once transferred his capital to Daulatabad (Devgiri) and along with him went many scholars, theologians, and mystics. His parents also migrated to the place. He was four years at the time Malik-ul-Umar Syed Ibrahim Mustafa, his maternal uncle, was the governor of Daulatabad. From the very beginning his father put him on the right track i.e. to learn and to study and gave him his early education. From his childhood he was inclined towards Religion and spent time in meditation and prayer. He was ten when his father died and his maternal grand father assumed the responsibility of his education and training and taught him initial books but he took lessons on "Misbah" and "Qadoori" from another teacher. On the expiry of her father his mother grew angry with her brother, and returned to Delhi. He was fifteen at the time. He had heard a lot about Hazrat Nizam Uddin and Hazrat Nasir Uddin Roshan Chiragh Dehlavi from his father and maternal grand father and grew devoted to them. One day he went to say his prayer in the Jama-Majid of Sultan Qutub Uddin, there he saw Hazrat Sheikh Nasir Uddin Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi and pledged Obedience to him on 16, Rajab. Under the guidance of Hazrat Nasir Uddin Chiragh Dehlavi he engaged himself in prayers and meditation and so much enjoyed them that lie forbade studies and requested his teacher to allow him to do so. Hazrat Nasir Uddin strictly denied him permission and instructed him to study with attention Usool-e-Bizoori, Risals Shamsia, Kashaf, Misbah so he restarted the studies under the guidance of renowned teachers. Maulana Syed Sheriff Uddin Kaithli, Maulana Taj Uddin Muqaddam and Maulana Qazi Abdul Muqtadir and qualified for the degree at the age of nineteen. One day he with other disciples lifted the palanquin bearing Hazrat Nasir Uddin. His long hair stuck into the foot of the palki and pained him severely but he did not disentangle them for love and respect to the teacher. When Hazrat Nasir Uddin learnt of the episode, he was overjoyed and recited the Persian couplet Har ki murid Syed gaisoo daraaz shud Vallah khilaf-e-nest ki Uoo ishq baaz shud. (Meaning: "Syed Gaisoo-Draaz has pledged his obedience; there is nothing wrong in it because he has deeply fallen in love)." After this incidence he was entitled Gaisoo-Draaz. He was a great scholar on material as well as spiritual subjects. He left many books. It is said, he was the first writer of a magazine on mysticism in Urdu. He wrote about 100 books on Persian and Arabic. Some of them are: Tafseer (Commentary)-e-Qu'Orane-e-Majeed. Multaqit. Havashi Kashaf. Shairah-e-Mashareq. Shairah Fiqah-e-Akbar. Shairah Adab-Ul-Murideen. Shairah Ta-arruf. Risala Sirat-Ul-Nabi. Tarjuma Mashareq. Ma-Arif. Tarjuma Awarif. Sharah Fasoosul Hukm. Tarjuma Risala Qerya, Hawa Asahi Quwwat-Ul-Qalb, etc. etc. Stay at Gulbarga Having lived for about 44 years in Delhi he went to Gulbarga. He was eighthly at that time. Firoz Shah Bahmani ruled over the Deccan during this period. He gave him much respect. For a long time he was engaged in religious discourses, sermons, and spiritual training of the people. Death This great scholar, mystic, and the wonderful, guide attained an age of 104 years, died on 16 Ziqa'ad 825 Hijri in Gulbarga and buried there. His tomb is a place of pilgrimage for all the people, high as well as low.
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HAZRAT NOMAN SHAH DARGAH
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Taj Baba with Amma Saint Tajuddin of Nagpur
 The meeting of two saints: The saint riding a tiger and holding a serpent in hand is the legendary Ghazi peer from the Sunderbans, Bengal, invoked by both Hindus and Muslims for their safety from wild animals while visiting a forest. The one sitting on the right could be a Hindu Rishi - notice a cow in the background. The saint is also known as Baba Bagh Sawar (a tiger-riding saint). |  Shah Abdul Qadir Jeelani: A typical devotee to a saint's tomb is usually imagined as a woman, with her jholi (scarf) held out in a posture of 'asking'. In this poster, the mausoleum of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Iraq is visited by a beautiful female devotee wearing a distinct Punjabi dress and facial features. | |
 Longing for MedinaThis typical calendar image of Mecca and Medina shrines has something unique: bleeding pigeons - probably symbolizing the artist's (and devotee's) longing and inability to visit Medina. Not to miss the artist's byline at the bottom: Balkrishna. (The symbol of bleeding pigeons has also been noticed in Christian iconography). |  Taj Baba with AmmaSaint Tajuddin of Nagpur with Amma who was his constant companion for decades. Notice the similar garlands both wear - symbolizing the fana fi Shaikh (Consummation into the Master). While the saint's tomb is in the backdrop, the tantra-type talismans on the top corners are meant to ward off the evil. | |
 Bait-ul-Muqaddas or the Holy House at Jerusalem, Israel. This image maybe a copy of something produced in Arab or Europe. The sun rising from behind the mount Sinai throw out rays that are typical of nationalistic calendar art produced in the 1950s and 60s. |  Band Samaa, or a posture of restricted body while listening to music. Since music can make a listener to dance - something discouraged in Islam - some Sufis bind their hands and legs in order to avoid any dance movements. This image features the Chishti saint Waris Shah of Devah, in Uttar Pradesh. | |
 BurraqA mythical beast that the Prophet Muhammad rode to heaven during his Mi'raj or ascension. Notice the Indian features of the women - she could be straight from the poster of a Hindu deity - Radha, Sita, Saraswati... Animals or non-human creatures have a special place in a devotee's mind. |  Meeting of the Saints: An imaginary gathering of some important saints - clockwise from bottom left - Baba Farid, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Hazrat Ghuas-e Azam, Hazrat Bu Ali Sharif, and Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia. | |
 JamaatA gathering of people from different strata of the society for a collective namaz (Muslim prayer). Notice the torn and tattered clothes of a person (in white) standing next to a supposedly wealthy nawab or a king. On the top is the Urdu translation of a Quranic verse about obedience to God. | |
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Hazarat Tajuddin Baba
Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur was born on the 21st of January in the year 1861 at a place called Kamptee situated near Nagpur in the state of Maharastra. He was one of the Five Perfect Masters of Meher Baba.
Tajuddin Baba was born as a unusual child. It is said that he did not cry as a baby and physical torture was done to him by his parents in order to make the child cry. Baba wore the marks of these tortures on his body until last.
Like Narayan Maharaj, Tajuddin Baba also lost his parents at a very tender age. His maternal grandmother and uncle Abdul Rahman looked after his needs. While studying as a child in a Madarasa or a School in Kampti, near Nagpur, he came in contact with a spiritual master Hazrat Abdulla Shah, who immediately recognized the spiritual potential in the child and initiated him to the path, by giving him a dry fruit to eat. Baba was given the instruction to "Eat less, sleep less and speak less. Read Quran”, by Hazrat Abdulla Shah. With this contact Tajuddin Baba lost all his material consciousness and started enjoying oneness of "Adwaita". His personal experience of the oneness made him isolate from the world and he remained in personal seclusion, away from the world.
Later at the age of 20 during 1881, He joined the Nagpur Army Regiment as a sepoy (Soldier). The gift of the Master was in His heart and He hardly found any solace in the day to day working of the Army. After this regiment was posted to Sagar, Baba spent most of His time with Hazrat Baud Saheb, a very well known spiritual person of Sagar. This Hazrat Baud Saheb thus became a spiritual Guru of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba. With more and more time being spent with Hazrat Baud Saheb, His official work suffered and ultimately he tendered resignation to become free, which He already was.
His oneness with God made Him unaware of the world around Him and He started roaming in the streets of Sagar naked like a Mast. Gradually His relatives and friends came to know about this and they called Him back to Kampti near Nagpur. All medicines and various Doctors were tried but of no avail Tajuddin remained in His state of absolute forgetfulness of the world. Although the stories of His miracles spread, yet the society started opposing His naked roaming from here to there and unfortunately He was admitted to a Mental Asylum on 16th of August 1892.
Hazrat Tajuddin Baba's glory spread from the Nagpur Asylum as He was often seen outside the Asylum in Nagpur and at various places in Kamptee. The British officers of the Army who were surprised at this, made proper investigations and found Him properly locked up in the Asylum. Ultimately the investigating officials became His disciples, and started to regularly visit Him.
The Hospital became a place of pilgrimage to the growing number of visitors day by day, who came to Baba for blessings. Later Maharaja Bahadur Shrimant Raghoji Rao Bhonsle, the Maharaja of Nagpur became a disciple of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba and moved an application for His release to the Governor, against a security deposit of Two thousand rupees. On the 21st of September 1908, after His release, Baba was brought to Maharaja's 'Palace'. Since then this Palace, which is now within the heart of the Nagpur City, Baba became the epicenter of Tajuddin Baba's divine work.
"Chhota Taj-Bagh", the arrow pointing at the stone upon which Tajuddin Baba used to rest most often.
Hazrat Tajuddin Baba, like all other Spiritual Persons who become known for their compassion, was constantly being approached by the rich and the poor for a cure for the worldly pains and no one ever left without His blessing and what-so-ever material desires they wished. His Glory spread like jungle fire and thousands and thousands came to the palace at Shakardara to bow down to Him. Taj, as the word means, was the crown of Divinity, for a stream of disciples from all walks of life, and from all schools of religious faiths.
The inner view of the Tomb Shrine of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba.
By 1925 Baba was nearly 65 years old, and became weak and exhausted. It was in August 1925 that Baba's health deteriorated much, and Maharaja Raghoji Rao availed the services of the best Physicians of Nagpur to treat Baba, but of no avail. Baba was asked if He would permit the large number of devotees who were anxiously awaiting for a glimpse of their Hazrat, and with Baba's willingness, the Palace was opened to all, who came in a large number for a last blessing from the King of Kings, the Taj of Sadguru's, Hazrat Tajuddin Baba. It was so, on 17th of August 1925, that Baba left the physical form, but He is and shall always remain in the hearts of all of His devotees.
"Taj Bagh", the Tomb Shrine of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba, Umred Road, Nagpur Distt. MS (India).
Meher Baba referred to the status of a Perfect Master in His famous book "God Speaks", that a Sadguru or Qutub is the highest of the High, and no one can realize self without the grace of the Sadguru. All else gathered is nothing but just the shadow of the infinite reality.
Meher Baba explained the philosophy of creation simultaneously in three principal schools of thoughts " Sufi", "Mystic" and "Vedantic". He unified the terms of the three basic thoughts and their common references in a parallel manner. He clearly presided that the real miracle is the realization of the Self, and all other worldly miracles were just a eye wash. Only sometimes the real Masters use these Miracles as a foreword to the Book of the longest Travel Story, the journey of the Soul to the Soul of Souls. Those who are Real give us the real, and that once given, makes one so immersed in his own Oneness that now nothing can be given nor taken away.
A couplet from Rumi translated in English which we read somewhere, says what words can not speak:-
I am insane, but they keep calling to me.
No one here knows me, but no one chases me off.
My job is to stay awake like the Night-watchman.
When they're drunk enough, and it's late enough,
they recognize me. They say, There's daylight.
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Kaba Karta Hai tawaf Gaus Pak ka
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Dargahs Of India: Sirhind Sharif
Dotting GT Road, away from the hustle and bustle of Chandigarh and somewhere between Ludhiana and Ambala, lies the dusty town of Sirhind that holds within itself important pages of Indian history book. Sirhind is mostly known among Muslims through Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi, the famous Sufi of the Naqshbandi order who was conferred the title of Mujaddid Alif-sani.
Mujaddid, in Islamic tradition, refers to a person who, Muslims believe, is sent by God in the first half of every century of the Islamic calendar.
As it says in the hadith: “Allah shall raise for this Umma at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion” (Sunan Abu Dawud)
The Mujaddid’s objective is to revive Islam, remove from it any extraneous elements and to restore it to its pristine state. A Mujaddid might be a caliph, a founder of a sufi order, a saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.Usually all those who are considered to be the Mujaddid may not compulsory that they claim. They can be recognize by their work for Islam and its revival. [Wikipedia]
Mujaddid Alif-sani would mean reviver of Islam in the second millennium. Even though his name was familiar, I never knew the exact location of Sirhind till a friend I was visiting in Chandigarh told me about it. It was the place where Ahmed al-Faruqi was born on the day of Ashura, the 10th of Muharram in the year 971 Hijri or 1564 AD.
He received his knowledge and education through his father and through many shaikhs in his time. He made progress in three tariqats: Suhrawardiyya, Qadiriyya, and Chistiyya. He was given permission to train followers in all three tariqats at the age of 17 years. He was busy in spreading the teachings of these tariqats and in guiding his followers, yet he felt that something was missing in himself and he was continuously searching for it. He felt an interest in the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, because he could see by means of the secrets of the other three tariqats that it was the best and highest. His spiritual progress eventually brought him to the presence of the Ghawth and Qutb of his time, ash-Shaikh Muhammad al-Baqi, who had been sent from Samarqand to India by the order of his shaikh, Muhammad al-Amkanaki. He took the Naqshbandi Order from the shaikh and stayed with him for two months and some days, until Sayyidina Muhammad al-Baqi opened to his heart the secret of this tariqat and gave him authorization to train his murids in the Order. [Wikipedia]
A high point of Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi’s life was his confrontation with Akbar and then with his successor Jahangir. Things came to such a pass that he was incarcerated in the Fort of Gwalior for three years. Eventually, he was freed by the Emperor and went back to preaching in Sirhind where he died in 1624 AD. He is largely credited to have led the revival of Islam in India in the 16th-17th century. However, some scholars have criticized his role saying that he steered the intellectual discourse away from the liberal dogma during the times of Akbar and Jahangir. Others have criticized him for his alleged role in the assassination of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru of Sikhism, in 1606 at the hands of Jahangir who suspected Arjan Dev of helping his rebellious son, Khusrau.
The entrance to his shrine is imposing and a mosque is situated adjacent to the shrine. The plaque at the top of the main gate reads:
bismillah ar rahmaan ar rahiim
laa ilaahaa illalaah muhammad rasuul allahmazaar puranvaar Hazrat Imam Rabbani Mujaddid Alifsani Sheikh ahmed Faruqui Naqshbandi Sirhindi rahmat ullah alaihu
It roughly translates into:
In the name of Allah, Most Magnificent, Most Merciful
There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is His MessengerThe illuminated mausoleum of Hazrat Imam Rabbani Mujaddid Alifsani Sheikh ahmed Faruqui Naqshbandi Sirhindi (may Allah have mercy upon him)
The plaque also tells us that the construction was done in 1925 AD which is not is fairly recent. As it is the case with Taj Mahal the mausoleum of Sheikh Ahmed Sarhind is also built in two stories. A demo grave at the top and the actual grave at the bottom.
One of the interesting sights at the mausoleum is this intricate marble work made colorful by wish-threads tied by the devotees. For every wish they solicit through Sheikh, the devotees tie a thread. Today Sirhind Sharif receives many of its visitors from other parts of North India who are going to Ajmer Sharif for the annual Urs and stop at Sirhind along the way. The population of Muslims is minuscule in Punjab and a large percentage consists of immigrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Quite close to the dargah of Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi stands Fatehgarh Sahib Gurudwara and holds an exalted status in the eyes of Sikhs. It is the place where the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh were bricked alive.
After the heroic death of two elder sons of Guru Gobind Singh, in the battle of Chamkaur, on December22, 1704 his two younger sons, namely, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh were done to death, by being bricked alive in the fort of Sirhind on December 28, 1704 by the order of the tyrant Nawab Wazir Khan. Mata Gujri, grandmother of the two Sahibzadas expired due to the shock of brutal murder of her two grand children. A Hindu Philanthropist Dewan Todar Mal cremated three dead bodies with the help of other devotees of the Guru. He purchased the land by paying gold coins to the muslim Zamindar named Atta. Here stands the Gurdwara Jyoti Swarup. A big hall with a seating capacity for 5,000 persons has been recently constructed. It has been named Dewan Todar Mal Hall. [All About Sikhs]
Sirhind, like many other places of historical importance dotting North Indian landscape has been largely forgotten but will feature prominently whenever we look back into the past.
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