16. TRAVELS OF THE GREAT KHWAJA BABA (R.A.)
WITH HIS MURSHID
The Great Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hassan
Chishty Sanjari (R.A.) continued to travel
with his peer-O-murshid (spiritual teacher),
and they both reached Kirman, where they met
Hazrat Ahaduddin Kirmani and Janab Aarif
Revgiri. All these mystics were present in
the mosque of Damascus (Syria). As they
talked together, Janab Mohd Aarif observed
that while the rich were answerable on the
Day of Judgment, the derveshes were
exempted. One of the derveshes, there upon,
questioned the authenticity of such a divine
Farman. Janab Aarif, there upon, named the
book as Kashful Mehjoob. The dervesh
insisted on reading such a Farman himself.
Janab Aarif, being helpless, invoked
Almighty God for help and an angel appeared
with the book in hand. The arguing dervesh
then bowed before Janab Aarif reverentially.
These four dervishes thereupon agreed to
exhibit each others spiritual powers through
Karamat. Hazrat Khwaja Usman -e-Harooni (R.A.)
showed a Karamat by pulling out some gold
coins from underneath his musalla, with
which some halwa was purchased and
distributed amongst all. Hazrat Shaikh
Ahaduddin Kirmani next exhibited his Karamat
by bringing to life a dead tree just by
touching its dead branch lying nearby. But
Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty (R.A.) remained
silent out of great regard for his peer-o-murshid.
Only when ordered by Hazrat Usman-e-Harooni
(R.A.), he exhibited his karamat by bringing
out four loaves of fresh bread from his
pocket and gave them to the four starving
derveshes. Janab Aarif, thereupon, remarked.
"Only he who has such powers of working
miracles is a dervesh. Others are not
derveshes. "
Through the above experience, Khwaja Baba
teaches us that the Almighty Allah always
comes by his immense grace to the rescue of
his beloveds in times of need and thus a
dervesh, in order that he might be called
so, must possess some occult power, which
means showing karamat.
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