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There are many living miracles of Hazrat Khwaja Sahib even after his demise.
Allah holds Hazrat Khwaja Sahib in high rank and is pleased with him because
he has strived for the cause fo Allah. (9:20, n. 1271 Yusuf Ali) (40 :7-8,
n. 4365 Yusuf Ali). To gain blessings by making the soul of Hazrat Khwaja
Sahib as means to gain benefits is permissible. As these effects are shown
by Allah alone. Hazrat Khwaja Sahib showed supernatural powers whilst
alive as well as dead because the supernatural powers are nothing but
the mannifestations of his miracles by the Grace of Allah. It is through
Hazrat Khwaja Sahib that Allah fulfils desires because we know that Hazrat
Khwaja Sahib is close to Allah and loved by Him.
Tunku Abdurrahman was campaigning for election for the post of prime minister.
But success seemed quite remote and he was perturbed. One day a faqir
came to Tunku Abdurrahman and informed him that if he promised to pay
a visit to the shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Sahib at Ajmer in India, then he
would surely win.
It seems that Hazrat Khwaja Sahib had instructed the faqir in a dream
to give this message to Tunku Abdurrahman. Tunku Abdurrahman promised
him and he later on won the election and became the Prime Minister of
Malaysia. Later Tunku Abdurrahman and his wife paid a visit at the shrine
of Hazrat Khwaja Sahib. (Times of India 10th October 1962 and The Statesman
9th October 1962).
Once a couple with their children visited Ajmer to perform Ziyarat in
the 1978 Urs of Hazarat Khwaja Sahib. In the maddening crows they were
seperated. Soon the husband and wife were united and later on the daughter
also was found. But the 7 year old son could not be traced, as the day
was trampled to death by the crowd. Some of the volunteers found the dead
boy and brought it out in the coutyard. No sooner did the weeping parents
saw their dead son they began wailing. They could not believe that instead
of receiving blessings and gifts at this holy place, they were being deprived
of their only son. They were extremely aggrieved and disheartened. Soon
a crowd gathered around them and an old darvesh appeared. He asked the
old lady to give him alms in the name of Allah and said that everything
would be well. The sad mother gave a five rupee note to the darvesh who
after accepting it whispered some Qur’aanic verses on the dead boy his
hand. By the Grace of Allah the boy got up and embraced his mother. Everyone
watching the sorrowful eventturned joyful. But when the woman turned to
thank the darvesh, he had disappeared.
One day a woman who was barren came to Hazarat Khwaja Sahib’s shrine and
prayed that she may give birth to a son. She promised that she would visit
Hazarat Khwaja Sahib with her child and that she would then throw him
in the Deg (cauldron). This deg is very huge and the food cooked here
is distributed to all, after the morning prayers. The next year, by the
Grace of Allah and Hazarat Khwaja Sahib’s blessings this lady came with
her son to visit the shrine of Hazarat Khwaja Sahib. She thanked Hazarat
Khwaja Sahib and prayed for her son to be saved and then threw him in
the deg. BY Allah’s Mercy and Hazarat Khwaja Sahib’s command the hot food
did not burn the child. The people safely took him out and gave it to
the mother. She thanked Allah and Hazarat Khwaja Sahib and showered praises
on Hazarat Khwaja Sahib.
When the food in the deg is cooked the Andar Kotewalas (a clan of people)
after wrapping themselves with rubber clothes, climb into the deg by the
stairs attached to it. They dip the buckets into the deg and pull out
the niaz (sweet rice prepared with dry fruits). When their hands cannot
reach the rice they jump into the deg by saying Khwaja Garibnawaz. Then
they fill the buckets and pass it up to the people standing at the mount
of the cauldron (deg). The dey and the food in very hot, yet the people
in the deg as well as those helpers outside are not burnt or harmed. No
blisters appear on their hands. This is the living miracle of the power
of Hazarat Khwaja Sahib and until now no accident has occurred.
There are two degs on the eastern and western side of the main door, Bulund
Darwaza. The digger deg has a circumference of 39 feet and its depth is
15 feet. Akbar had presented it in 976 A H to commemorate his victory
over the fort of Chitorgadh. The second deg was presented by Jahangir
in 1022 A H.
The quantum of spiritual favours and munificence showered by Hazarat Khwaja
Sahib upon humanity is unlimited. The people with insight proclaim that
just as power of the stormy restless waves cascade on the shores levelling
all the land around, similarily the ever flowing spiritual magnanimity
of Hazarat Khwaja Sahib’s is impatient to reach out to all without any
distinction. To achieve success one must follow the teachings of Hazarat
Khwaja Sahib and have faith in Allah. “O ye believers do your duty of
Allah, seek the means of approach unto him (Q. % : 38 – Sura Maida, verse
38).
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