Auliyawalay

All the Dargah’s in India are handsome example of Indo-Islamic architecture. Whether as a place of pilgrimage or as representative of Islamic architecture, All the Dargahs are an integral part of India’s Heritage and Culture and are visited by people from all the religions in India. In most cases the Hindu Visitors outnumber there Muslim brothers by a fair margin..

” OUR MISSION IS TO LIVE ISLAM WITHOUT DEVIATING FROM ITS PATH. WE FOLLOW THE SUNNAH OF PROPHET MOHAMMED (PBUH); WE AVOID THE EXTREMES, UTILIZE CONTEMPORARY TOOLS AND MEANS OF ALL KINDS, AND UPHOLD GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS AND PIETY. ”

WHEN WE COME TO THE TEXTS 62, 63 OF SURA YUNUS IN THE ELEVENTH PARA OF QURAN HAKEEM, CURIOSITY ABOUT WHO THESE BLESSED BEINGS ‘AULIA’ ARE , IS NATURAL AND HOW, IN ANY CASE, ARE WE TO KNOW ABOUT SUCH ELEVATED SOULS IS THE NEXT THOUGHT. THE WORD WALI HAS ITS ORIGIN IN WALA WHICH MEANS NEARNESS AND VICTORY, AND, WALI ALLAH IS HE WHO ATTAINS NEARNESS TO ALLAH THROUGH ”FARAIZ” THAT IS, PERFORMANCE OF PRESCRIBED DUTIES, AND WHO NOT ONLY REMAINS ENGROSSED IN SUBMISSION TO ALLAH, BUT ALSO WHOSE HEART REMAINS ABSORBED IN THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALLAH’S GRANDEUR, SO THAT WHENEVER HE PERCEIVES, IT IS A PERCEPTION OF THE POWER OF ALLAH, AND WHENEVER HE HEARS, IT IS ALLAHS TEXTS AND WHENEVER HE SPEAKS, THE WORDS SPOKEN ARE IN APPRECIATION OF THE CREATOR (RUBB), AND WHENEVER HE ACTS THE ACT IS IN OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH. WALI ALLAH IS ONE WHO NEVER TIRES OF REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH, THAT IS, ZIKARULLAH, AND DOES NOT SEE ANYBODY BUT ALLAH WITH THE EYE OF THE HEART. THIS IS THE ATTRIBUTE OF WALI, WHEN ALLAH’S SERVANT ATTAINS THIS STATE, ALLAH ALL GLORY BE TO HIM, BEFRIENDS THE SERVANT, AND BECOMES HIS SERVANTS DEFENSE AND HELP.

ALLAH’S WALIS HAVE OBSERVED THAT WILAYAT MEANS NEARNESS TO ALLAH AND A STATE OF REMAINING ALWAYS ENGROSSED WITH HIM. WHEN A SERVANT OF ALLAH ATTAINS THAT STATE FEAR DOES NOT AFFECT THE SERVANT NOR IS THERE ANY GRIEF FOR LOSS SUFFERED OR IF ANYTHING CEASES TO EXIST. HAZRAT IBN-ABBAS (RA) HAS OBSERVED THAT A ‘WALI’ IS THE PERSON WHOSE SIGHT REMINDS US OF ALLAH. HAZRAT IBN ZAID SAYS THAT A WALI IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO POSSESSES THE ATTRIBUTE THE ABOVE TEXT ENSHRINES.

BLESSED SOULS THAT ARE AULIA ALLAH LIVE, AS WELL AS DIE FOR ALLAH. EACH ACTION OF A BE-FRIENDED THAT IS A WALI IS ALWAYS DIRECTED TO THE WALI’S CREATOR. THIS BEING SO, ALLAH BLESSES THE WALI OR AULIA-ALLAH WITH PERMANENT BLISS BOTH HERE AND HEREAFTER.

QURAN IN PARA 2, SURA BAQRA-154,155,156,157 SPEAKS HIGH ABOUT THESE PEOPLE. AND SAY NOT OF THOSE WHO ARE SLAIN IN THE WAY OF ALLAH : THEY ARE DEAD. NAY, THEY ARE LIVING THOUGH YE PERCEIVE IT NOT. BE SURE WE SHALL TEST YOU WITH SOMETHING OF FEAR AND HUNGER, SOME LOSS IN GOODS, LIVES AND THE FRUITS (OF YOUR TOIL), BUT GIVE GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE, WHO SAY, WHEN AFFLICTED WITH CALAMITY. “TO ALLAH WE BELONG, AND TO HIM IS OUR RETURN — THEY ARE THOSE ON WHOM (DESCEND) BLESSINGS FROM THEIR LORD AND MERCY. AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT RECEIVED GUIDANCE.

THESE PERSONS, HAVING RECEIVED ALLAH’S GUIDANCE CONTINUE OVER-TIME AND DOWN GENERATIONS TO BE AMONG THE MASSES TO HELP AND GUIDE THEM FOR, PROPHETS HAVE CEASED TO COME DOWN, BECAUSE THE DOOR OF NABUWAT (PROPHECY) WAS DECREED CLOSED AFTER HAZRAT SAL LAL LA HO ALLEH WASALLAM.

(THIS DAY I HAVE PERFECTED YOUR RELIGION, FOR YOU COMPLETED MY FAVOUR UPON YOU). SURA V. MAIDA 4

HOWEVER, GUIDANCE CONTINUED TO REACH THE MASSES THROUGH AULIA-ALLAH (THE BEFRIENDED OF ALLAH) IN ORDER TO KEEP THE MASSES REMINDED OF ALLAH, HIS PROPHET AND HIS BOOK, THE HOLY QURAN HELP THE MASSES FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH (SIRATE MUSTAQEEM) SUCH GREAT BEINGS TERMED AS MUQARRABUN IN QURAN IN SURA LVI (WAQIA) ARE THOSE WHO NOT ONLY BELIEVE THEIR CREATOR AS ONLY RUBB AND WORSHIP HIM ALONE AND SEEK FOR HIS HELP ALONE BUT ALSO KNOW THE TRUE RELATION THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR CREATOR. THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED “REST AND PEACE AND GARDEN OF BLISS” (S. LVI, 89)