Book Name:Blessed Saints’ Manners of Visiting Madinah

Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه having deep desire to gain a place in Baqi’-e-Pak, begs in the Divine court of the Rab of Holy Rasool for the sake of Ghaus-e-Pak رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه:

 

   مجھ کو بقیعِ پاک میں مدفن نصیب ہو

غوثُ الورٰی کا واسطہ یا ربِّ مُصطفٰے

 

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Unique ways of visiting the blessed Raudah of Beloved Rasool

A unique way of our pious predecessors for visiting the blessed Raudah of Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is that no matter how wealthy and affluent one is, he would feel spirituality and bliss considering him a servant of the court of Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, and he would regard every blessing as a Sadaqah of this blessed court as it is stated that during his stay in Madinah, Mahmood Ghaznavi was seen in the Masjid-un-Nabawi, dressed in the clothes of beggars with a water-bag hanging on his shoulder. He was serving the visitors of the Haram with water. A person asked him: Are you not the king of Ghazni? Which type of get-up have you adopted here? He responded, ‘Of course, I am the king of Ghazni but this is the court where even the kings are beggars.’ The person liked this reply very much.

After a little while, the same person saw the Egyptian king, coming in the royal awe-inspiring manner. Going near him, the person asked: You have come to Madinah in this royal awe-inspiring manner. Is it the way one should come here? The reply given by the Egyptian king is also worth being written in golden letters. The Egyptian king responded: ‘O questioner! Tell me who has bestowed this kingship upon me. Certainly, it is the Rasool of Rahmah       صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم who has bestowed it upon me [by the Divinely-bestowed authority.] I have come here with royal crown and clothing so that the Bestower sees his bestowment with his own blessed eyes.’ (‘Aashiqan-e-Rasool ki 130 Hikayaat ma’ Makkay Madinay ki Ziyaratayn, pp. 51)