Lal Shahbaz Qalander ( Saint,Poet) From Pakistan

 

Lal Shahbaz Qalander ( Saint, Poet) From Pakistan

The genuine name of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was Syed Muhammad Usman was brought into the world in 1177 AD in Marwand, Iran. His dad, Syed Ibrahim Kabiruddin was an upright and devout dervish, and his mom was a high-positioning princess.

His precursors moved from Iraq and settled down in Meshed, from where they again relocated to Marwan. During the Medieval time frame, Meshed and different urban communities of that locale were famous focuses of learning and human advancement.

''The mosque that is underlying the hearts of the holy people Is the spot of love for all, for God stays there (Jalaluddin Rumi)''

Indeed, even as a little youngster, Shahbaz Qalandar showed solid strict leanings. He took in the Holy Quran by heart exactly at age of seven, and at twenty accepted the Qalandar request of Sufism. Qalandar is a sort of dervish who is for the most part wearing bums garments, likes neediness and somberness, and has no perpetual dwelling. 

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar meandered all through the Middle East and came to Sind from Baghdad through Dasht-I-Makran. In 1263, he showed up in Multan, which around then was at the tallness of wonder and magnificence. 

Individuals of Multan brought him to remain however he proceeded with his excursion toward the south and in the long run, settled down in Sehwan, then, at that point a renowned focus of learning and well-known spot of love for Hindus, in the southern piece of Sindh, where he lived in the storage compartment of a tree on the edges of the town. 

He remained at Sehwan for a very long time and during this period he dispersed the light of Islam, giving direction to a great many individuals.

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Sehwan is presumably the town with the most established persistent presence in Sind. It ascends on the highest point of a conelike slope, and close by lies the remains of an enormous fortification accepted to have been established by Alexander the Great. A few coins of Alexander's time are accounted for to have been found here.  

From the hour of Arab intrusion in 712, Sehwan was vital throughout the entire existence of Sind since it instructed the course from the Upper to the Lower Indus, through which all intruders from one or the other north or south needed to pass. What's more, ownership of the fortification was vital for the accomplishment of each mission.

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is a predominantly well-known supporter holy person loved and loved the same by Hindus and Muslims of Sind. He was an unimaginable evangelist, mystic, specialist, philologist, and author. 

A few books in Persian and Arabic on philology and verse are credited to him. He was Lal (red) in view of his red clothing, Shahbaz because of his honourable and heavenly soul that took off like a hawk ever more elevated in the unlimited sky and Qalandar since he had a place with Qalandria request of Sufism and was virtuous, commended, and inebriated with affection for endless being of God. 

The legend goes that the occupant fakirs in Sewhan sent him a bowl of milk filled to the edge showing that there was no space for much else. In any case, shockingly, he returned the bowl with a lovely blossom coasting on the top. This legend spread all over when of his passing in 1274, subsequent to living a decent range for a very long time.

Night View of Shrine

The raised area around his entombment place, worked in 1356, gives a staggering look with its Sindhi Kashi tiles, reflect work, and two gold-plated doorways – one gave by the late Shah of Iran, the other by the late PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. The internal sanctum is around 100 yards square with the silver canopied grave in the center.

On one side of the marble floor is a line of around 12 inch high collapsing wooden stands on which are set duplicates of Quran for aficionados to peruse. On the contrary, side, adjoining a pile of devouring agarbattis (joss sticks), are lines of diyas (little oil lights) lit by Hindu fans. 

The Hindus viewed him as the manifestation of Bhartihari, the pious sibling of King Vikramaditya, who is accepted to have revered Shiva at the scene where Lal Shahbaz's sanctum is arranged with all its magnificence and brilliance.

In Iqbal's moving verse we find countless sections about who is Qalandar and what are the properties of a  Qalandar. A couple of occurrences are as underneath:

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A great many aficionados run to the burial place while each Thursday their number stands duplicated. Particularly at the hour of his Urs (demise commemoration) being a fair also a strict celebration and praised each year on the eighteenth day of Shaban, Sehwan springs to life and turns into the point of convergence of the greater part 1,000,000 pioneers from everywhere Pakistan. 

On every morning of the multi-day feast, the restricted paths of Sewhan are stuffed to limit as a great many travelers, fakirs, and lovers advance toward the place of worship to the community with the holy person, offer their accolades and make a wish. 

The greater part of individuals present laurels and a green chadar (a material used to cover a burial chamber) with Quranic engravings in silver or gold strings. Murmuring of stanzas, singing and moving in commendation of the holy person proceeds till late around evening time. 

A reverential dance is known as dhamal, being an excited and euphoric twirl of the head and body, is a unique custom that is performed at the cadenced beat of the dhole (a major barrel-molded drum), some of them being of goliath size and set in the patio of the altar. 

Chimes, gongs, cymbals, and horns make a booming racket, and the dervishes, clad in long robes, dots, wristbands and shaded head-groups spin quicker and quicker in a mesmerizing daze, until with a last stunning shout they run uncontrollably through the entryways of the sanctum to the yard past.

Not just individuals congregating from everywhere Pakistan yet additionally, the vacationers and the outsiders are captivated at this entrancing scene and seek to appreciate it consistently. 

Such were individuals who really refined the vainglorious baffling experience. Through their greatness, their connection to God is with the end goal that in them the Divine character appears to reflect itself and through them is uncovered to his supporters, and the finesse of God is apportioned to the individuals who summon God in his name.