Deep devotion of A’la Hadrat to visit Madinah

A’la Hadrat, Imam of Ahl-us-Sunnah, Maulana Shah Imam Ahmad Raza Khan  رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه fell severely ill after he had performed the acts of Hajj while performing his second Hajj. In spite of it, his passion and enthusiasm to visit the blessed Madinah did not decrease. Due to the intensified fever, the scholars tried to prevent him, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: ‘To tell you the truth, the real purpose of my visit is to behold the holy Taybah; I started my pilgrimage both times with the same intention; if it is not so مَـعَـاذَ الـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the bliss and spirituality of my Hajj would go unfulfilled.

When the scholars insisted strongly due to his ailing condition, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه read the following Hadees: مَنۡ حَجَّ وَلَمۡ يَزُرۡنِيۡ فَقَدۡ جَفَانِيۡ The one       who performed Hajj and did not behold me (my tomb), is unfair to me’.^[1]      A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه then said, ‘In my opinion, this Hadees does not mean that visiting once is sufficient, though a person has performed Hajj so many times but it is essential to pay a visit with every Hajj; now please make Du’a         [for me] so that I may get the privilege to visit the blessed court of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. Once I behold the Blessed Raudah I do not bother if I depart from this world at the same time.’

(‘Aashiqan-e-Rasool ki 130 Hikayaat, pp. 145, 146)

The devotee of A’la Hadrat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه expresses his devotional passion in his poetic couplets ‘Wasail-e-Bakhshish’:

چَلوں دُنیا سے میں اِس شان سے اے کاش! یَا الله   شَہِ اَبرار کی چوکَھٹ پہ سَر ہو میرا خَم مَولٰی

سُنہری جالِیوں کے سامنے اے کاش! ایسا ہو      نکل جائے رسولِ پاک کے جلوؤں میں دَم مَولٰی

(Wasail-e-Bakhshish, pp. 98)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد