The Basanti Dye

Mohtaram Saeed Sahab, Assalam Aliekum,

I`m from Pakistan. I read your site about Janab Hazrat Ameer Khusro (RUA). It is one of the good site i visited. Janab, I am looking for the Poorbi Kalam of Hazarat Sahab. If it is available or you can guide/help me towards the direction for its availability, I will highly oblidged to you. The Poorbi Kalam is extint in Pakistan and not available.

Looking for a favourable reply.

Thanks -

Best Regards

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Address: 1 School Road, Al-Noor Market, Allahabad, Westridge III, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

(Note: I need this stuff for my own use/study. It will not be used for commercial purposes. As my address may confuse with ``market``.)

Chowk is a pleasant find!Please keep up the noblework.Yes we need to constantly challenge the real world boundaries if we want a better world tomorrow.Best wishes.

Brother Saeed,

Congratulations for such an article. Keep the good work up. Also please write some articles on the commonness in the Sant Marga and the Sufism. In fact by principles and practices, they are just the same...

Thanks for enlightening us

Sarvesh

First of all, Yousuf bhai , that was an excellent article and a very good homepage as well about Hazrat Amir Khusraw quds sirruhu.

Indeed, it is the sufis who brought Islam to the masses of India and it is only by following the path of real sufism [which is inseparable from shar`iat--Hazrat Amir Khusraw spent most nights in doing nawaafil prayers and most days fasting] that the Muslims can revive again. Indeed, it is not surprising to learn that almost all of the great Muslims of the past have been Sufis; it is only since the rise of Wahaabism in Arabia in the last 150 years that this extremist tendency has become apparent.

Praise be to Allah though that even today,real Sufis, are alive and well all over the Muslim world and in the Subcontinent in particular. In Indo-Pak the Qadiri, Naqshbandi and Chishti Orders are the most popular. Famous Sufis belonging to these orders in this century include:

Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi Qadiri (India)

www.dawateislami.net, www.raza.co.za

Hazrat Pir Sayyid Mihr Ali Shah Sahib Chishti of GolRha Sharif, (Pakistan.)

www.chishti.com

Amir al Millat, Sayyedi Pir Sayyid Jama`at Ali Shah Sahib Naqshbandi (Alipur Sharif, Pakistan) see www.nfie.com, www.naqshbandi.org

Also www.sunnah.org

May Allah be pleased with all three of them!

Mr. Sceptic,

It is not true that the Naqshbandi Sufis are any less tolerant than those of the other orders; in fact all of the Sufi Orders are agreed that real tassawuf can only be achieved by strict adherence to the Shariah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam. As for the wars between the Sikhs and the Mughals, these were more to do with politics and less to do with religion. Yes, Hazrat Aurangzeb Alamgir was a murid in the Naqshbandi Order of Hazrat Mujaddid e alf al Thani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi but his alleged `anti-Hindu` policies were not true and he was only applying shar`iah law. In fact he had a higher %age of Hindu advisers and nobles in his court than any of the other Mughals!

Best wishes

Asif

I really like this article it is very informative. Thanks for sharing.

Mr Saeed

Thank you for such a wonderful article. It was thought provoking and inspiring. I whole heartedly agree with you that the great divide is a falsehood borne out of ignorance and fear. And if people can just find a place to talk, we will liberate ourselves from these traps.

RE BG:

My source for the translation was the India office library in London. I will have to look up the minutiae from one of my bibliographies. I might post the rendition itself if I can find it somewhere in the maze of my papers.

Afrasiyab is a Persian name; I do not know the exact meaning myself, but a Farsi friend told me that it meant an illusionist of water (whatever that means; like the child of moonless dog!). Afrasiyab is also the name of the lord of ‘Tlism-e-hoshruba’ in ‘Dastan-i-Amir Hamza.` Remember Umro Ayyaar, Adi Karb, Bakhtak, Burj Meher, Khizr and the rest of the gang?

Re: Afrasiyab

(BTW, what does Afrasiyab mean - have a lughat but forget to look it up) Where did you read this khadi boli translation of the Quran? Sounds like it would be amazing to read.

I only want to say that in the Read Reply column there should also be the e-mail addresses of those interacting. Any way mine (the writer of this article) is :
YSAEED@NDA.VSNL.NET.IN

Thanks yaar,

It has been sometime since I have read anything in Khusrawi tone. The eclectic Dehli-walas even translated Quran in Pooravi-Hindi (khari boli?). I have only read the translation of Sureh Fatiha- amazing!

Where did you do your research from? I would like to read more about it. BTW, no mention of Lahore??

Basant mubarak to all.

Informative and inspiring. Basant Mubarak (in advance), Mr. Saeed.

Yeah, we sure need some of that dargah spirit.

An absorbing account of the color and traditions of Basant. I especially liked the anecdote about Khusro.

Hope to see more of your writing on Chowk