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Once I asked .my august mentor, "Do you enjoy saying your
prayer? "He said, "Yes!" I submitted to him, "I try my best
but cannot focus my thoughts on one point. Sometimes I do succeed but it is
only temporarily."
Qalander Baba Auliya said, "Let me tell you a method to
concentrate. It will help you to focus." Then he taught me the method and
said, "Just do it in the last prostration of the night prayer. I acted upon
the advice and it really worked. I repeated it every time I said my prayer,
forgetting his instruction that it was to be done only for once. In the last
prostration of my midnight prayer when I did the same action again I felt as if
somebody standing on my both sides but I continued repeating what I was
supposed to do only for once and the prostration was prolonged more than
enough. Then fear gripped my heart and I finished the prayer and hit the bed. In
those days there wasn't any electricity where I resided. No other house was
near my house. I was surrounded by wilderness and jackals howled around. Lamp
was gone out. In my anxiety I couldn't find the match box. Then I was all alone
in the house. Fear was knotting my guts. I attempted to recite Ayatul Kursi but
it only added fuel in the fire and I felt my heart missing its beat. Then my
heart started palpitating and I felt as if my heart beat would break my ribs.
Now I started reciting Surah Ikhlas as soon as I finished the recitation. My
body started lifting from the bed, so much so that I was touching the ceiling.
I thought I am dreaming so I touched the ceiling and felt it with my hands.
This trade me all the more frightened and I got scared that if I would fall I
would be having multiple fractures of my bones.
Then I saw two hands coming towards my throat. One hand held my
heart and the other closed my mouth that had opened to scream. In the horning I
saw in my dream that my grandfather Maulana Khalil Ahmed Anbaitwi, Abul Faiz Qalander
Ali Suharwardi, Sheikh Abdul Qader Jillani are standing in the courtyard of the
house and Qalander Baba Auliya pacing between them in a state of anxiety and is
saying, "this isn't fair." Then he commanded as if telling someone,
"He has to Survive at any cost."When I woke and got up every part of
my body was aching. I could hardly manage to go to Qalander Baba Auliya in the
evening. Upon seeing me he said, "You worried us all by acting against what
you were told. God blessed you otherwise you bad finished yourself"
Qalander Baba Auliya: An Introduction
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
Dedication
To that young generation that would 6ring an end to the dark shadows of grief and fear by acquainting mankind- with peace and tranquility after equipping itself with the teachings of Qalander Baba Auliya…. and man would-able to enter the heaven after reclaiming his eternal distinction.
