Post by S.Fatima on Feb 8, 2009 11:09:12 GMT
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki Radi Allahu anhu traveled extensively and met many great Sufis of his time. He chronicled most of those events in his journal. The journal has many interesting stories. On one of those stories, he wrote that one day he was sitting with his friend Qazi Hamiduddin Nagori Radi Allahu anhuon a bank of a river where he saw a big scorpion creeping fast. He said to him "there must be a reason behind this." Both of them followed the scorpion, which reached a tree and killed a big snake. They saw a man sleeping nearby. They approached him and found that he was a drunk. They stayed there and wondered why God bestowed upon such a sinner His mercy. Then they heard a voice saying, "If We only take pity on the pious, who would help the poor?"
After the man woke up and was surprised to see the dead snake, we told him the story. He was ashamed and in a short time, he rose to become a great saint. God bestowed His Divine Knowledge upon him.
He spent most of his time in fasting. His dependants passed their days in extreme poverty. Even though he was poor, he was a generous. Whatever he received, he gave it away to the poor. When he had nothing in the house, he would serve the people with cold water.
Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki Radi Allahu anhu moved from Iran to India and settled in Delhi during the time of Sultanate of Delhi.
The Turkish Sultan Shamsuddin Altutmish was his admirer and could have given him anything he wanted but he never demanded a thing from him. Once the Sultan wanted to grant him a large part of the land and his minister arrived with the Sultan's proclamation with the request to accept it; he declined the offer saying that the earlier saints of the Chishtiya order had never accepted such things, and he would not either.
On his way to Delhi when he was at Multan, its ruler Qibacha Beg, came to see him. He said, "The Mongols are about to invade Multan and I have no power to face them. For God's sake, help me."
Khwaja Kaki Radi Allahu anhugave him an arrow and said, "After the evening prayer, appear on the tower of the rampart and shoot it with a bow in the direction of enemy, then watch what God does."
The ruler of Multan did as he was told. When the arrow fell, the Mongol horde fled from the battlefield and Multan was left unharmed.
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki Radi Allahu anhu traveled extensively and met many great Sufis of his time. He chronicled most of those events in his journal. The journal has many interesting stories. On one of those stories, he wrote that one day he was sitting with his friend Qazi Hamiduddin Nagori Radi Allahu anhuon a bank of a river where he saw a big scorpion creeping fast. He said to him "there must be a reason behind this." Both of them followed the scorpion, which reached a tree and killed a big snake. They saw a man sleeping nearby. They approached him and found that he was a drunk. They stayed there and wondered why God bestowed upon such a sinner His mercy. Then they heard a voice saying, "If We only take pity on the pious, who would help the poor?"
After the man woke up and was surprised to see the dead snake, we told him the story. He was ashamed and in a short time, he rose to become a great saint. God bestowed His Divine Knowledge upon him.
He spent most of his time in fasting. His dependants passed their days in extreme poverty. Even though he was poor, he was a generous. Whatever he received, he gave it away to the poor. When he had nothing in the house, he would serve the people with cold water.
Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki Radi Allahu anhu moved from Iran to India and settled in Delhi during the time of Sultanate of Delhi.
The Turkish Sultan Shamsuddin Altutmish was his admirer and could have given him anything he wanted but he never demanded a thing from him. Once the Sultan wanted to grant him a large part of the land and his minister arrived with the Sultan's proclamation with the request to accept it; he declined the offer saying that the earlier saints of the Chishtiya order had never accepted such things, and he would not either.
On his way to Delhi when he was at Multan, its ruler Qibacha Beg, came to see him. He said, "The Mongols are about to invade Multan and I have no power to face them. For God's sake, help me."
Khwaja Kaki Radi Allahu anhugave him an arrow and said, "After the evening prayer, appear on the tower of the rampart and shoot it with a bow in the direction of enemy, then watch what God does."
The ruler of Multan did as he was told. When the arrow fell, the Mongol horde fled from the battlefield and Multan was left unharmed.