رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه immediately got off and asked the labourers in an emotional state: ‘Tell me truthfully which one of you is a Sayyid^[1]? Because my passion of faith is feeling the fragrance of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.’ Stepping forward, one of the labourers said, Huzoor, ‘I am a Sayyid.’ No sooner had he completed his sentence, leader of the Muslim world, the Great revivalist of his era, A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه took off his blessed turban and placed it at the feet of the Sayyid. Tears are trickling from the eyes of Imam-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه and he is imploring with his hands joined together, ‘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 Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم asked me, ‘O Ahmad Raza! Was the delicate shoulder of my son for bearing the burden of your palanquin?’ then what reply would I give? How great an insult it would be to my claim of love and devotion to the Beloved Rasool 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 shoulder.’ Upon hearing this request, people’s eyes welled up with tears and some of them even screamed emotionally. Despite his repeated refusal, the Sayyid prince had to get on the palanquin. What a heart-rending scene it was! The illustrious Imam of the Ahl-us-Sunnah sacrificed the glory of his Allah-gifted knowledge and worldwide fame at the feet of an unknown labourer (prince) by including himself in the labourers, for the sake of the pleasure of the Noblest Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. (Anwaar-e-Raza, pp. 415)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد