| For about eighty years Mian Mir remain on the
throne of dissemination and guidance in Lahore to
lit up candles of love to Allah and his Prophet
and devotion to Muhammadan law. Numerous
supernatural deeds appeared from him but grand
miracle of Mian Mir was that many hypocrites,
deviates and mischievous persons with one glimpse
turned back on the right path. His simple and
comprehensive speech comprised on sweetness of
Sindhi Accent could cause real revolution in
hearts and spirits. He was maestro of connecting
creature to the creator. He spent entire life
simply, plainly, and under complete obedience of
Muhammadan law. Never wore a garment that could be
ostentatious to dervishness. Often he instructed
disciples if you opt dervishness for Allah this
execution should be profitless because he is aware
of the heart states and if you opt if for people
then it would be complete hierocracy. Keep close
eye on one aspect of clothing it must be clean.
Mian Mir used to respect dervish and never
regarded moneyed.
His following words remain radiant in the
history for ever:
Moneyed are men of alms and dervish and mystics
are men of truth
With hygienic heart you need not to close eyes
to observe things
A devotee's vision except Allah no one
penetrates
Love of wealth and property is death of a
dervish
One moment of thought for self morality is
better than hundred years of worship
Human is composite of three elements; the self,
the heart and the spirit. Their rectification also
has three laws; to rectify self following the
Muhammadan Law, to rectify heart duties of devout
and to rectify spirit from guarding the
hierarchies of reality are imperative.
A devotee has to match his spirit and bodily
desires according to Muhammadan law.
Whose body turn out to be soft like spirit,
life and death are equal to him.
Mian Mir sahib Ji breathed his last on the 7th
of Rabi al-awwal 1045 or the 22nd of August 1635
Three hours before the end of Tuesday. He
bequested that don't bury me in saline soil that
the signs of my bones also vanish. Never form a
shape of my grave, don't sell my bone and never
make my grave a product of selling. For about
eighty years Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji remain
on the throne of dissemination and guidance in
Lahore to lit up candles of love to Allah and his
Prophet and devotion to Muhammadan law. Numerous
supernatural deeds appeared from him but grand
miracle of Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji was that
many hypocrites, astrals, deviates and mischievous
persons with one glimpse turned back on the right
path. His simple and comprehensive speech
comprised on sweetness of Sindhi Accent could
cause real revolution in hearts and spirits. He
was maestro of connecting creature to the creator.
He spent entire life simply, plainly, and under
complete obedience of Muhammadan law. Never wore a
garment that could be ostentatious to dervishness.
Often he instructed disciples if you opt
dervishness for Allah this execution should be
profitless because he is aware of the heart states
and if you opt if for people then it would be
complete hierocracy. Keep close eye on one aspect
of clothing it must be clean. Sai Hazrat Mian Mir
Sahib Ji used to respect dervish and never
regarded moneyed. His following words remain
radiant in the history for ever: Moneyed are men
of alms and dervish and mystics are men of truth
With hygienic heart you need not to close eyes to
observe things A devotees vision except Allah no
one penetrates Love of wealth and property is
death of a dervish One moment of thought for self
morality is better than hundred years of worship
Human is composite of three elements; the self,
the heart and the spirit. Their rectification also
has three laws; to rectify self following the
Muhammadan Law, to rectify heart duties of devout
and to rectify spirit from guarding the
hierarchies of reality are imperative. A devotee
has to match his spirit and bodily desires
according to Muhammadan law. Whose body turn out
to be soft like spirit, life and death are equal
to him. Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) was the oldest son
of the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.
At a young age the prince got acquainted with
Hazrat Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji, who came from
Sehwan and who had come to Lahore as a
representative of the Qadria order. Dara Shikoh
and his about a year older sister Jahanara became
the disciples of a successor of Sai Hazrat Mian
Mir Sahib Ji, who is called Mulla Shah. Among the
many books of the prince his Sakina-Tul-Awliya
(= The Inward Peace of the Friends of Allah) is
the most famous. It contains, among other things,
a detailed biography of Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib
Ji who almost always has been mentioned by using
his title of honor Mian Ji. After a stay of more
than sixty years of Hazrat Mian Ji in Lahore, he
got dysentery, an illness about which there is a
reliable Hadith: The one who dies because of
dysentery, dies as a martyr. It lasted for five
days and at the 7th of Rabi al-Awwal 1045 or the
22nd of August 1635 three hours before the end of
Tuesday, the bird of his pure soul was released
from the cage of bondage because of the human
existence, and it raced to the world of the
Absolute Divine, which was his native country. All
of this took place in the area of the town, which
is known as Khanipura, in the cell, which was the
place wherein he stayed. Hazrat Khwaja Abdullah
Ansari has said: By Allah, next to Whom there is
no other Allah! For a good servant there will
never come a day which is more beautiful, more
serene and more pleasant than the day on which the
angel of death comes to him and says: Do not
fear, as you are going to the All-Merciful and you
return to your native country and it is a day of
festival! This world is a place for a temporal
stop; it is a prison for the believer. This
existence is only on loan. This place is a pretext
and suddenly the veil is being removed and takes
him away and the human being returns to the Truth
and enters an eternal life. The death of a pious
person is a life without end Many of them have
died and are kept alive by the people. The blessed
Abu Bakr-e Zaqqaq has said: The one who has a
longing experiences at the gate of death a greater
enjoyment than someone who is alive when taking
honey. These kinds of people are so full of joy
at the moment of death and they know how to enjoy
it as their residence is the world of those
without a place. From the final Prophet come these
words: Love of your native country belongs to the
faith. The meaning of this hadith is not hidden
to those who have a heart; what is clear does not
need an explanation. The Prophet has also said:
Death is a bridge, which unites the friend with
the Friend. (This is by the way no saying of the
Prophet, but it is probably a saying of the
important Iranian Sufi Yahya ibn Muadh (d. ca.
871-2), the preacher of hope.). What is more
beautiful in his world to long for, As that the
friend reaches the Friend? There it was misery;
here it is peace everywhere. There it was only
words, here it is an embrace. Some have claimed
that Hazrat Mian Ji had reached an age of 107
years, while others state that he had become 99
years old. According to a document that has been
said to be correct by the relatives of Hazrat Mian
Ji and by trustworthy people and notables in
Sehwan and which was shown by the son of his
brother Muhammad Amin, he was born in the year
957/1550. He was therefore 88 (lunar) years old,
but Allah knows best what is true. There are no
differences of opinion about the year, month, day
and the time of death of the Mystic. Ive recorded
it as Ive heard it from and checked it not only
by means of his disciples who were present at that
time, but also by means of Nur Muhammad, his
servant, who was day and night sitting next to him
during the days of his illness. The just-mentioned
Nur Muhammad has told this: One day before he
died, Wazir Khan, the governor of the city, came
to visit the Mystic. He was standing outside of
the cell and sent him a message of his arrival.
The Mystic answered: Let him go home! The
servants then tried to persuade him to change his
opinion as he had come to visit the patient and he
wanted to pay him his respect. Then he said: He
is allowed to enter, but he cannot sit down. When
Wazir Khan entered he said: Ive brought an
excellent physician with me, so if you like he can
treat you. The Mystic answered: The Absolute
Physician is sufficient for me and he asked
Wazir Khan to go. Then Nur Mohammed noticed that
he was a little restless and I asked him: What is
causing this restlessness? He answered: I would
have remembered Allah for nothing during all of my
life, when I sensed restlessness in myself at this
moment. That which Hazrat Mian Sahib Ji wanted to
say with these words was: It is like this that
restlessness of necessity stems from the body and
from the human nature, and it is caused by the
struggle at death. This however is not important
as the spirit and the heart are quite peaceful and
are active with the remembrance of Allah. This
excitement may come from a too strong a longing of
which those who are present are not conscious.
One day he said: I had heard that the prophets
experience a struggle at death as well as
restlessness. That is why I was extremely fearful
in my heart and from that day on I was worrying
about it, until the day when one of my friends,
who was one who had experienced inner states, was
close to death. Then he started to move his hands
and feet quite wildly. I asked him: How about
your state of inner concentration? What has
happened to it? And why are you thus moving your
hands and feet? He answered: My state of inner
concentration is even stronger than before, and I
dont experience what you suggest. This answer
made it clear to me that the hearts of the friends
of Allah is at peace at that time and that the
external restlessness is not really of
importance. When the governor of the city was
informed about the terrible event of the departure
of the Mystic he returned to the cell together
with his family, the great ones, the scholars and
people of merit of the city. The disciples and the
servants of the Mystic were occupied with the
final preparations and put him in the funeral
cloth. A little later the prayer for the deceased
was accomplished by a great number of important
people and other Muslims. Then they respectfully
carried the corpse of the Mystic from the city to
the spot, which had been recommended by the Mystic
himself during his lifetime: Take me to the spot
where my friends are resting! They carried the
corpse and exactly buried this pearl among the
knowers of Allah in this earth which was like
paradise, and which could be found at about a mile
distance from the city near Alamganj, that is at
the south-east of the city. Both the high and the
low were very sad because of the departure of the
Mystic. They experienced this day to be as
difficult as the Day of Resurrection and repeated
the following verse over and over: Alas! The one
who renounced the world completely, Has left the
world: As pure as he was when he entered it, As
pure he has left it. The circle around the centre
of the world, Became sad because of his death. The
centre of generosity has left us. The falcon of
his soul, Which was hunting for the highest
wisdom, Had heard the drum of the King And quickly
went away. The heart in the body is sad, As the
trustworthy one has gone away. The soul has
escaped from the body: Its strong support has gone
away! A creative man, Mulla Fateh Ullah Masoom
wrote this chronogram: O, Sai Hazrat Mian Mir
Sahib Ji, you are the opening Of the book of the
enlightened. The dust of the door Of the envied
elixir. He just travelled on To the eternal city.
Here, in the valley of tears, He was sad and he
was suffering. The intellect wrote down The date
of his death: Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji went
towards the Highest Paradise. (The chronogram can
be found in the final line of this poem in the
words: Ba-firdaws-e-wala Sai Hazrat Mian Mir
Sahib Ji raft Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji went
towards the Highest Paradise, the numerical value
of which is 1045 A.H. or 1635 C.E.). Each night
before the Friday (what is in the west the
Thursday night is already a Friday according to
Islam as a day starts at the setting of the sun)
the people went in large crowds to visit Sai
Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji in order to walk around
the radiant resting-place of this leader of the
friends of Allah in order to be blessed by Allah.
Especially those who belonged to the companions of
Hazrat Mian Mir Ji think it is necessary and think
it to be an honor to walk around this kaba of
wishes. The one who has a problem or a wish finds
a solution or a fulfillment of the wish after
leaving this blessed place of rest. By sheer bad
luck and because of the difficulties at that time
with many evil days I, the poor one, was not
present at the time of the death of the Mystic,
but I was in Agra. One day, it was three hours
before the end of the day, I saw in a dream that I
was present with Hazrat Mian Ji. He gave some
advices and then said to me: You have to say off
the death for me! As I could not understand this
type of order, I became quite excited and declined
to do it, but the Mystic says it with a strong
emphasis and at that very moment I see that he
clearly dies, and I say the prayer of the dead as
he had ordered me to do. I awoke in a confused and
sad state, and the marks of sadness and tears were
quite visible. This event made me very astonished
and I had to think often about it. Several days
later the horrible message arrived from Lahore
that at the same day and at the exact same time as
I had seen al of this, the terrible event took
place. We are in the caravan Of the land of the
living to the hereafter. He was a hero, And that
is why he preceded us. Like the pupil of the eye I
am drowned in a stream of tears. From my wounded
eyelashes Many tears came forth. I said; Until my
end I will complain because of him. The strength
to speak Has left me because of my sadness. The
owners of a heart, Who have dead before their
deaths, They drink from the cup of death The water
of eternal life. They have removed their luggage,
From the temporal residence And then went on their
way To the eternal kingdom. We sacrifice our lives
for those, Who hardly took one or two steps On the
path of the seeker And already sacrificed their
hearts and souls. A pious man has told this: In
the night before the day that the Mystic wanted to
return to the mercy of Allah I saw in my dream an
exciting situation. Someone cried: One of the
servants of Allah has returned to the mercy of
Allah. Everyone who will attend to his funeral
prayer, his or her sins will be forgiven! When I
awoke I was thinking who this servant of Allah
might be. Suddenly someone brought the message
that Hazrat Mian Ji had died and I went to his
funeral prayer. Molla Fateh, who was a pious man,
has told this story: Hajji Parasha, who had
served the Mystic during his final illness, has
said: Shortly before his death the Mystic wanted
to do something. He became suddenly restless and
wanted to rise from his bed. I took his hand in my
hand in order to help him. He withdrew his hand
from mine and said: Dont do that! He himself
left his bed while he was trembling a lot and
said: O, messenger of Allah! Blessings and peace
be upon you! Then his breathing changed into a
short type of breath and while I put him down on
his bed he recited the words: Allah! Allah! and
smiling he moved his hands just like those people
do who are in ecstasy, until he entered the
forgiveness of Allah. Mian Shaykh Muhammad
Lahori told me (= Dara Shikoh): I was with Mian
Ji at the time of his death. During his struggle
at his deathbed I saw that he slowly moved his
lips. I approached him in order to hear what he
had to say and noticed that his breath came from
his breast and that he was restless, until the
moment that he said two times Allah, Allah and
it stopped. Most of us were thinking that Hazrat
Sai Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji never had practised
the remembrance of Allah aloud, but in this moment
it became clear that it has been always his dhikr.
But even in this moment it did not became clear
because of his wish, but because of his breath was
used to it; it was its habit so to say. Sai
Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib Ji sahib Ji passed away from
perishable world to perpetual world in the year of
1045 Hijri. 1635 A.D. He bequested that dont bury
me in saline soil that the signs of my bones also
vanish. Never form a shape of my grave, dont sell
my bone and never make my grave a product of
selling. The great mystic and the true devotee of
Allah rests in Lahore where hundreds of followers
from Muslim, Sikhs and Hindu community used to
come daily and pay homage to the one of the
greatest saints of all times.
The saint was buried according to his own will,
close to the grave of his friend and disciple Mian
Natha near Alamganj (= World Treasury: It has
perhaps received this name as several Sufis lie
buried here), that is at the southeast of the
city. The place at that time was known as village
Darapur or Hashmipur, but is now known as Mian
Mir. His Shrine is one of the important places of
Lahore. It was partly built by Dara Shikoh. The
mausoleum is built on a large platform of marble
reached by a successive flights of steps. The dome
over the tomb is supported by a quadrangular
tower. The courtyard is spacious and pared with
red sand stone. Hundreds of followers from Muslim,
Sikhs and Hindu community used to come daily and
pay homage to the one of the greatest saints of
all times. |
