One day Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(R), the beloved Khalifa and spiritual
successor of the Great Hazrat Khwaja
Moinuddin Chishty (R.A.) was having a stroll
with king Shamsuddin-Al-Tamish of Delhi.
The king courtiers were also in attendance,
when all of a sudden an attractive woman
barred their way and started wailing
bitterly. When asked by the king the reason
for her willing, she replied that: she was
pregnant with child and Khwaja Qutubuddin
Bakhtiyar Kaki (R) was responsible for that.
She insisted on her nikah (marriage) with
him. The king and his courtiers were
terribly upset because they knew that the
Khalifa was a pious man, with untarnished
integrity.
The Khalifa himself became ghostly at the
statement made by the women. He turned his
face in the direction of Ajmer and invoked
the help of his Pir-o-Murshid, Khwaja
Moinuddin Chishty (R.A).
All of a sudden the Holy Saint appeared in
the midst of the King and his courtiers. The
King and his courtiers were wonder-struck at
his sudden appearance and hurriedly offered
their homage.
The Saint then asked his Khalifa the reason
for remembering him (the Saint). The Khalifa
was too dumb-struck to answer and tears ran
down his face. Thereupon, Great Khawaja Baba
(R.A.) turned to the woman and addressed the
child in the womb. “O’ confined child, your
mother is accusing Qutubuddin of being your
father, now speak out the truth and say if
the accusation is correct." By the grace of
God, the child in the woman's womb replied,
"Your Honour, the statement of my mother is
a lie; the enemies of Qutubuddin accused the
holy man only out of jealousy so that he
would be discarded in the eyes of the
people." The people assembled there were
astonished at the voice from the woman's
womb. Realizing that she could not escape,
she admitted her guilt openly before the
King and his courtiers.
It is said that an official (mufti) bore a
grudge against Khwaja Qutubuddin (R) because
of the special treatment enjoyed by him
under King Shamsuddin-al- Tamish, hence this
wickedly contrived plot failed miserably.
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