Day: May 31, 2023

INCIDENT AT FATEHPUR THAT PROVED OUR SAINTS SPIRITUAL GUIDE ALWAYS HELPS HIS DISCIPLE

Once, Our Saint Travelling from Fatehpur to Painthyapur remained there for two days where an incident occurred. Our Saint had once mentioned that a spiritual guide always a custodian of his disciple. The same idea is expressed in other words that a spiritual leader is useless who stays away from his disciple especially if he is far off to help him in the hour of death.

Sometimes he advised to me content and praised the promise and supply of food by God the Sustainer. Sometimes he said, “Those whose belief is perfect their peace of mind satisfactorily composed. Those who know full well that God is sure to provide daily bread they are always contented”. He also said that one who has no faith in God’s promise his faith is unworthy. God satisfies one who trusts God his faith. Our Cherisher has promised to supply food to his creatures. The worst person is one who has no trust in his Creator’s promise and considers his means of subsistence depend on his occupation alone.

Thus in every function and gathering Our Saint impressed on his disciples in a commanding tone advised and forecasted good things so that they may be aware of God’s truth who takes care of him. Nobody felt that these instructions and Aqi Mohtasim Shah Maqsood Ali Saheb an old devotee of Dewa Sheriff thought that this warning was meant for him confessed with tearful eyes that he was so greedy and covetous that he had no belief in God the Cherisher.

Hence two days were spent in anguish and on the way they passed through a verdant Jungle where the scenery was superb and enchanting. Our Saint felt a desire to halt there and got down from his planquin. In spite of protests from his devotees that the place was not fit for meditation he remained firm and the servant unwillingly spread a carpet under the shadowy branches of a tree.

After sometime two persons of the neighbourhood came and requested Our Saint to accept the invitation for the night and he accepted their requests. Later on two persons brought some food in a basket with lantern. All enjoyed the food and Our Saint gave them a tahband. Suddenly a person brought the sad news of the death of Mahboob Shah in the neighbouring village. Our Saint immediately ordered the servant to give five rupees and a tahband for a winding sheet. Our Saint himself went there and ordered to dig the grave of the deceased in the courtyard of the mosque.

Now the people understood that this was concrete example his often repeated instructions that a spiritual will always be near his disciple and God the Cherisher would provide daily bread to his creatures.

From these saying of Our Saint it is quite clear he taught his disciples religious precepts and practices so that their habits and affairs may be chaste and well cultured.

His blessings and bounties were not only for his disciples but were meant for all without distinction of caste and creed