Reviving Tawhid

Makhdoom-ul-Alam Hadhrat Shaykh Alauddin Ahmed Sabir Kaliyari Image credit: https://www.euttaranchal.com/tourism/piran-kaliyar-sharif.php     H e was the nephew and among the senior khulafaa of Hadhrat Khawaja Farid Uddin Ganjshakar. He was born at Kohtwaal in the district of multan in the year 592 AH. He is the descendent of Hadhrat Imaam Hasan (Ra). his ancestral chain is as follows: K hawaja Alauddin the son of Shah Ibrahim Abdur Rahim Abdus Salam, the son of shah Saifuddin Abdul Wahab, the son of Hadhrat Gauth Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani. Khawaja served in the general mess (Langar khana) of Khawaja Farid for 12 years upon his instructions all this time but never ate of the food because of lack of express permission. He would always be fasting. Finally when Hadhrat Fareed enquired from him in his regard, he said: "What right does this slave have to partake of anything without the permission of Hadhrat?" On hearing this reply, Hadhrat gave him the title of Sabir (The Patient ...

                         im age credit: TOI Sultan -ul- Masha'ikh Khawaja Nizamuddin Awliya:- T he gifts and talents of Khawaja Nizamuddin were perhaps expressed most concisely as well as meaningfully, by his spiritual guide Khawaja Farid Uddin Ganjshakar while conferring his viceregency upon him. He had said: "God has bestowed upon you the gifts of knowledge, intellect and his love; and anyone combining these qualities is best suited to discharge the responsibility of a vicegerent." Having attained the state of peaceful contentment, the Khawaja was always careful that all those disciples who were chosen by him to keep alight the lamp of his mystic order, expelled the liking for wealth and dignity from their hearts. Once Fasihuddin, a disciple, asked: "Who deserves to become the vicegerent of a spiritual teacher?" replied the Khawaja "One who is not at all keen to become a vicegerent." Daily Routine of ...

                                                                                Image credit: Times of India   Sultan -ul- Masha'ikh Khawaja Nizamuddin Awliya:- T he pith and marrow of Khawaja Nizamuddin's life and character, which illuminated his inner self and inspired his moral zeal, was the fervor of  spiritual love arising from the harmony of his soul. the flame of this love which he carried in his self from the very beginning burst into a radiant glow in the practice of spiritual austerities under the paternal guidance of his shaykh and guide Farid Uddin Ganjshakar and illuminated the environs of Delhi for more than half a century. The Khawaja's elevated soul which had reached the highest degree of sanctity, diffused the message of divine love to the four...