a few steps, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه called out: ‘Stop the palanquin.’ The palanquin stopped. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه immediately got off and humbly asked the labourers: ‘Tell me truthfully which one of you is a Sayyid[1]? I feel the fragrance of the Exalted Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.’ Stepping forward, one of the labourers said, ‘I am a Sayyid.’ No sooner had he completed his sentence, when the Great Mujaddid of the era, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه took off his ‘Imamah Sharif and put it at the feet of the Sayyid.

Then, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه begged with tears trickling from his eyes, ‘Honourable prince! Forgive this mistake of mine. I have unintentionally made this mistake. Oh how dreadful! I rode on the shoulders of a prince whose blessed slippers are the majestic crown of my head. If, on the Day of Judgement, the Exalted Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم asked me, ‘O Ahmad Raza! Were the delicate shoulders of my son for bearing the burden of your palanquin?’ then what reply would I give and how great an insult it would be to my claim of love for the Exalted Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم!’

After obtaining verbal forgiveness from the prince several times, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه expressed his last desire saying, ‘Dear prince! The only way to compensate for what I have done unknowingly is that now you sit in the palanquin and I would carry it on my shoulders.’ Upon hearing that, people’s eyes swelled up with tears and some of them even screamed emotionally. Despite his repeated refusal, the labouring prince had to get on the palanquin. What a heart-rending scene it was! The Grand Imam of the Ahl-e-Sunnah sacrificed the glory of his divinely bestowed knowledge and worldwide fame at the feet of an unknown labourer (prince) for the sake of the pleasure of the Exalted Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. (Anwar-e-Raza, pp. 415)

سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Have you seen that A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه by the Sadaqah of true love of Rasoolullah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم learnt by a specific fragrance that