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He
used to visit the tomb of Hazrat
Bayazid Bastami Rahmatu-Allahe
Ta-aala Alaihe
daily
on foot from Kharqaan and used to get Inwardly
Beneficence
and the advantage
from his spirituality. He was totally illitereate, unlettered and uneducated as
regards to Outward
Ilm. However, he was Inwardly
fully litereate directly
through the Ilm-e-Ludunni.
It
is said that once a Wali-Allah
Invisibly appeared before him and after hitting
his foot on ground with pride, he said 'I am the (second) Bayazid
and Junaid of my time'
.
Hazrat
Shaikh stood up and replied 'I am the (viceroy of) God and the Holy
Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam
of this age'
. The account of the first meeting of Sultan
Mahmood Ghazanvi with Hazrat
Shaikh Abul Hasan Kharqani Rahmatu-Allahe
Ta-aala Alaihe has been described in some books
like this that when Sultan Mahmood Ghazanvi learnt about the high fame of
Hazrat
Shaikh Abul Hasan Kharqani Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala
Alaihe
for many Kashf
and Karamaat, a desire arouse in his heart to see and meet the
Shaikh
and he many a times invited the Hazrat
Shaikh to honor him with his
visit to Ghazni. However, Hazrat
Shaikh declined his request. At
last, Sultan Mahmood Ghazanvi travelled to Kharqan and installed royal camp
outside the city and sent a messenger to the court of Hazrat
Shaikh Abul Hasan
Kharqani Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe and requested for
his pleasure to grant permission the king of time to see the Shaikh
as he has come from Ghazni to Kharqan in order to meet him. He further
requested the Shaikh to let him be escorted
to the royal camp if he favors so. When the Sultan had sent the messenger, he
had advised him to recite the following verse in case Hazrat
Shaikh
declines his request to pay his honorable visit to the royal camp:
Obey
Allah, and obey the messenger (of Allah) and those who are in authority (4:59)
When
the royal messenger reached the court of Hazrat
Shaikh
and he read the royal decree, Hazrat
Shaikh declined to go to the
royal camp and as the messenger had been ordered, he read the above verse and
said that it is obligation on the him to obey and follow the
orders of the king of the time, Hazrat
Shaikh Abul Hasan Kharqani Rahmatu-Allahe
Ta-aala Alaihe said:
*
Go
and tell the king I have not yet been able to fully discharge and offer my
duties for the Order of 'Obey Allah'
and I am still engaged in this. Afterwards, I
have to discharge many of the duties for the Order of 'Obey the Messenger'
. God knows when will come the
turn of 'those who are in authority'
? When the messenger returned to the Sultan with
this convincing and reasonable reply to his message, Sultan said 'now Hazrat
Shaikh
has made us answerless. We should now go to his place ourselves'. Hence,
in order to test the Inwardly
Kashf of the Shaikh,
he used this tactic that he ordered his slave Ayaz to wear royal raiment and
put royal crown on his head and he himself wore the ordinary dress of Ayaz to
show himself a slave and ordered some maids to wear the dress of men and took
them all with him and set out to the cottage of the Shaikh
in incognito garbs.
Thus, when this group of misguiding garbs reached the court of Hazrat
Shaikh in
the leadership of Ayaz, since Hazrat wa the knower and
the Roshan-Zamir, he paid no attention to the royal appearance of the Ayaz but
instead he addressed to Sultan, who was peeping through the arms of the
soldiers standing away, 'ask these Na-Mehram ladies to leave our place'. This
order was obeyed at once. After this, Shaikh continued 'what tricky
piece of tactic you have applied!' Sultan humbly replied 'our trick failed and
fell flat in front of the Phoenix like eyes of you, O Hazrat!'
Then Sultan begged for some auspicious gift from Hazrat
Shaikh
at that moment. Hazrat gave him a piece of dry
bread of barley. Sultan thankfully received that piece and presented some
parcels full of gold coins and started eating the auspicious piece of dry bread
of barley given by the Hazrat. By chance, that piece of
dry bread could not be swallowed by Sultan and he started coughing. Seeing this,
Hazrat
Shaikh pointed out towards the bags of gold coins and said 'O Mahmood!
Food of Messengers (of Allah) cannot pass through your esophagus then how would
this nest egg which is tainted with the blood of many poor and is the heritage
of Materialistic Pharaohs be swallowed by this Faqeer!'
