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The spirituals status and position
of Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz is above all the Muslim Saints and
spiritual leaders of the world. In India, the divine or spiritual
administration is in the hands of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz. No saint
can enter into the spiritual world and get spiritual elevation unless he
receives recommendation from the court of Khwaja Sahib.
Therefore, all the saints, whatever spiritual status they possess come
to his door for enrolment as a saint, get recognition as a saint,
receive his blessings and return with success. The
dimensions of his spiritual kingdom are beyond imagination, but there
can be no denying of the fact that he is the spiritual sovereign of
India, not of the present India but of undivided India. Though all the famous Chishty saints like Hazarat Khwaja Qutubiddin of Delhi, Hazarat Baba Shaikh Farid (Ganj-e-Shakar), Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (Mehmoob-e-Elahi), Hazarat Jamaluddin Hanswi and Hazrat Kaliari used to come to Ajmer and after them, their spiritual successors continued the tradition to come here and pay homage to Khwaja Sahib, yet there are other famous saints and scholars of different school of thoughts who have come over here and paid tributes to Khwaja Sahib. Hazrat Baba Ishq Maghribi He was the great saint of his time. He gained name and
fame during the period of Sultan Mohmmad Tughlaq. He visited in Ajmer in
the year 753 A.D. and paid homage to Khwaja. (Gulzarul Abrar Page 130).
He was a great saint of his time. He holds the unique
position of being the descendant of Hazrat Ghausul Azam piran-e-pir. He
traveled the entire world and got the little of Jehan-Gasht. He visited
Ajmer many times and paid homage to Khwaja Sahib. He paid tributes to Khwaha Sahib by planting a tree, which still exists within the boundaries of Ahata-e-Noor, inside Dargah Sharif. Hazrat
Syed Ashraf Jehangir Samnani of Kachhochha Sharif, visited Ajmer several
times before he breathed his last in the year 808 Hijri. (Jawabnama
Abdul Bari Mani) Hazrat Qadar Wali Shaul hameed Nagour (South India) Hazrat Shaul hameed who is also known as Qadar Wali is
the famous saint of South India. He is very popular in the countries
like Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Singapore. People from all those countries
come to pay homage to him at the time of his Annual Urs (Death
Anniversary), which is celebrated in Nagore (South India). In the year937 Hijri, when he came to Ajmer to pay
homage to Khwaja Sahib, the fact of his being coming to Ajmer was
spirituality revealed to some of the Khadims
of Khwaja Sahib. Therefore, those people went out of Ajmer to
welcome him. They honored him and gave him a warm reception and treated
him as their honorable guest.
Hazrat Mujahid Alaf Sani is a great saint of
Naqshbandi order. He does not belong to the Chishtia order of Khwaja
Sahib. Even then, he had great love and respect for Khwaja Sahib
and visited Ajmer for obtaining the blessings of the Saint of Saints. His visit to Ajmer has been detailed and described in
a famous book written in persian with the Title of 'Makamat-e-ImamRabbani'
as under: 'He (Hazrat Mujadid) went to Ajmer to pay homage to Khwaja Sahib.The
Khadims of Holy Saint received him with honor. They presented him a 'Chadar'
of the Holy Grave which he accepted with a deep sigh and tears in his
eyes saying 'Hazrat Khwaja has honored me with ‘Khillat’ (address
honor presented by ruler to his guest). This should be kept safe for my
‘Kafan’ (The shroud for dead)'. This
was the unique way of paying tributes to Khwaja Sahib by a great
Saint.
He holds a very high posotion among the muslims saints
of India.When ''If you people will continue to serve the Holy Shrine and visitors
whole heartedly your generation will prosper'' (Moniul Arwah page 204). He is said to be
the founder of Madaria order in India. He was a saint of great
reputation, he spent several days at Ajmer and kept himself busy in
meditation on a hill, which is towards East of Ajmer and is known as ''Chilla
Madar Sahib''. Hazrat Shaikh Salim Chishty of Fatehpur Sikri (Agra) the
famous saint during the reign of Emperor Akbar was direct descendent of
Hazrat Shaikh Baba farid. Emperor Akbar was his disciple. Akbar and
Shaer Shah Suri had unbreakable faith in him. Once he with Emperor Akbar came to pay homage to
Khwaja
Sahib. Several days passed but they could not come to the dargah. One day Akbar said to him 'O Sahikh tell me the
excellence of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz'. The Shaikh replied, 'O
Akbar, the excellence of Khwaja
Gharib Nawaz is evident from the fact that Emperor like Akbar and
Saint like Salim are in Ajmer for last many days, but, he had not
granted them permission to attend his court'. (JAWAB NAMA BY-ABDUL BARI
MANI)
It is said about that when he came to Ajmer, he took
off his his shoes and did not put them on throughout his life though he
under took several journeys but always traveled bare footed. He is renovator of Chishtia order. It was through him
that the Chishtia order was revived and rebuilt. He was a great scholar
and saint of his time and a source of much beneficence for the people.
The last Mughal Emperor
Bahadur Shah Zafar. was his disciple. He visited Ajmer and paid tributes to
Khwaja Sahib.
he devotion and faith in Khwaja Sahib is evident from the fact
that he honored the 'KHADIMS' by giving them the title of
''SAHIBZADGAN''. About four hundred years back during the reign of
Akbar, Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Haque, the scholar of world fame, came to
India under the spiritual command of the Holy Prophet of Islam to teach
'HADIS' in this country. The Holy Prophet of Isalm instructed him to go
to Ajmer first and stay ther and to obtain the blessings of Khwaja
Sahib. In his book, 'Sharreh Safarus-Sa-dah' he has described
his visit to Khwaja Sahib in the following words : ''O
Khwaja, I have to left all my knowledge and wisdom outside the door of
your Tomb. i am empty handed, bless me and do not return me empty''. Hazrat Farid Sani, the great spiritual personility of
thr 14th centuary was the direct descendent of Hazrat Baba Shaikh Farid.
He was a great scholar and an abstinent of high caliber. Every year at
the time of Annual Urs of Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz he used to
come to Ajmer and with great reverence paid to homage to Khwaja Sahib.
After him his son Shaikhul hadis Hazrat Maulana Syed Zahiruddin faridi contonued the tradition set forth by his reverend father. Now his grand son Hazrat Maulana Syed Ehtishamuddin Ahmed Faridi has kept the tradition alive and visits Ajmer not only at the time of Annual Urs but also on several other occasions |
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