Showing posts with label saint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saint. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Hazrat Khwaja Moeen-ud-Din Chishti

Hazrat Khawaja Moeen-ud-Din Chishti Rahmatullah Alyhe was born on Saturday 14 Rajab al-Marajab 530 AH (April 18, 1136), near Sinjar Kharasan city. Ancestral pedigree joined that of Syedna Hazrat Imam Hussain Salam Alyhe with the ancestor thirteenth. His father was Hazrat Khawaja Khawaja Kamaluddin Ghiasuddin bin Hazrat Khawaja Ahmad bin Hussein bin Khawaja Khawaja Najmuddin bin Abdul Aziz bin Khawaja Khawaja Idrees bin Ibrahim bin Imam Musa Kazim bin Imam Jafer bin Imam Muhammad Baqir bin Imam Ali Zain-ul-Abidin Ben Hazrat Imam Alyhe Salam Hussain bin Hazrat Ali Razi Allah Ta'ala Unho bin Abi Talib.At time of the death of his father, Khawaja Sahib was barely fifteen. He inherited his father's orchard and a windmill, which served as a source of income for Khawaja Sahib. He used to meditate for hours on the ugly scenes of horrible massacre of Khorasan, which he had witnessed with great pain for several years since his younger days. With these tragic impressions of his interest in life and worldly pleasures decreasing rapidly. In this world he was very restless and longed to be away from this crazy world if he could manage to see a way out.

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif bhitai

Shah Abdul Latif, a great scholar, saint and spiritual poet, was born in Hala Haveli near the village Khatiyan Hyderabad District, Sindh in 1689. His ancestral roots are in Afghanistan. It is said that Shah's father, Syed Habib Shah, had migrated from Matyaru, his ancestral home in Sindh in Afghanistan Bhainpur to spiritually connecting with Bilawal, a local holy man. Abdul Latif got his early education in a Madrasa run by Akhund Noor M. Bhatti. He was versed in the knowledge of the Koran and the traditions. He always carried copies of the Qur'an, Masnavi Maulana Room, and his great grandfather Risalo of Shah Abdul Karim of Burli. The poet excelled in the Sindhi language. He was also proficient in Persian, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Urdu and Baluchi language. Shah was a missionary and believed in the practical learning. It is through his travels he acquired the background for most of his poems. He denounced extravagance, injustice and exploitation in all forms and at all levels, and praised the simplicity and hospitality. His spiritual and mystical poetry carries a message of love and universality of the human race. In 1713, the Sufi poet married Bibi Begum Saidha. It was a love marriage. His wife died at a young age, before she could no children. Shah never remarried. In 1742, Shah Abdul Latif decided to settle in Bhit, which means "The Sandy Mound." Having a great passion for music, one day he ordered the musicians to play music. They played continuously for three days. Then they stopped from sheer exhaustion, they found the dead poet. He died in 1752, and was buried in Bhit. A mausoleum was later built. Before his death, fearing that people would ignore his poetry, he destroyed all his writings by throwing them in the Lake Kiran. But at the request of one of his disciples, the Sufi poet asked his servant, Naimat Mai, who had learned most of his verses, to rewrite them. The message was duly recorded and compiled. A copy of the compilation known as "Ganj" was maintained at the mausoleum. The original disappeared sometime in 1854. It was in 1866, 114 years after the death of the poet, Ernest Trumpp, a German scholar who knew Sindhi like many other languages, "Risalo" a complete collection of poems, Shah Abdul Latif's, compiled together with two other Sindhi scholars.

Friday, 5 August 2011

Hazrat lal Shahbaz Qalander

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was born as Syed Hussein Shah, who was later identified as Usman by his father. His birth date is a mystery, but careful speculation indicates that it was 1187 AD, although some biographers claim to be there until 1177 AD. He has been in an Uzbek tribe of direct deaths from Imam Jafar Sadiq and belonged to Ismaili faith.Hazrat Marvandi Usman was born a free spirit. He wandered far and wide in his quest for divine union. People called him Shahbaz [Falcon] due to his free and adventurous spirit divine search. He joined Qalandariya to the age of 20 years. Qalandariya is a unique branch of Sufism, the ud unparalleled spiritual training and self-satisfied negation.He Sharf Din Boo Ali Qalandar, the Sindh and advised him to travel there is reached. Sehwan, in those days was a strategic point from where some areas of upper and lower Indus could be accessed easily. There is always an important city in the history of the province of Sindh. As advised by Hazrat Ali Qalandar Boo, Lal Shahbaz decided to settle in Sehwan and lived there for six years until his coming death.18th Shaban Mark 3 Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Day celebrations, the annual Urs supporters from all over Pakistan in Sehwan. Narrow streets and mud and brick houses are inundated with lively tourists and pilgrims. Sehwan suddenly nosiy and dirty. Some 500,000 pilgrims visit the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar of 18 to 20 Shaban every year.

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Hazrat ghous-ul-azam

Great defender and leader of the saints are born of religious parents Hasani tribes, in the year 478 Hijri at Gilan in Persia. He is Syed from both sides, from the father as well as the mother. His father Syed Abu Saleh, a prominent and God-fearing man. When he was engrossed in meditation by the bank of a river he saw an apple floating down the rivers. He picked it and ate it. It struck him that he ate the apple without paying for it so he sets out in search of the owner, the bank of the river and finally reached the owner of the apple orchard, Abdullah Somai whom he requested to tell him the price of the apple, Abdullah replied Somai is an expensive affair. Syed Abu Saleh replied that he was not much by way of worldly material but he can deliver for her compensation. Somai Abdullah then asked him to Work for a year in the garden. In course of time the duration of extended many times. In the end Somai Abdullah admitted that he served him in excess of the price and want to reward him. Abu Saleh hesitated to accept it but when Abdullah Somai persisted, he relented. He said he had a daughter, blind of eyes, handicapped hands and feet and wanted to give her in marriage to him. In this way Somai Abdullah was married to his daughter, Syeda Fatimah. To his astonishment at Abu Saleh was found in her wondrously beautiful and wholesome. He complained to his father-in-law he found his exact opposite of what he described her. Somai Abdullah insisted the sincerity of his statement. He is blind because he had seen a man who can marry her. She was mute because she never uttered a word repugnant in the Shairah. She was deaf because he did not hear anything inconsistent with the Shairah. He has a disability of hands and feet because he had moved in the direction of evil. The father died after a great defender and the little orphan was reared by his mother and under the kindly care of his grand father, Abdullah Somai.He busied himself for forty years in the service of Faith from 561 to 521 Hijri Nowadays hundreds embarrassed Islam because of him and organized several teams to go abroad for the purpose. He arrived in India in 1428 AD. And stayed at Multan. His Qadriya to still exist in India. He died 561 Hijri at the age of 91 years.