Irshaadul Mulook

An in-depth treasury of explanations from the Kitaab,

By

Hadhrat Mufti Arif Umar Daamat Barakaatuhum

Irshaadul Mulook- Online Class (7)

Lesson 6

21st Rajab 1439 Hijri

8th April 2018

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

Inshallah we continue from where we had left off.

We had completed the brief biography of the translator of this

Kitaab, Hadhrat Maulana Aashiq Ilaahi Meert'hi Rahmatullahi Alayh.

Inshallah we move on to the Introduction of the Kitaab we are doing.

Maulana Zakariya Rahimahullahi Alayh is continuing to explain about

the Kitaab, and he is also now going to tell us a bit about the

Musannif of the Kitaab, Hadhrat Maulana Rashid Ahmed Gangohi

Rahmatullahi Alayh.

Maulana Zakariya Rahmatullahi Alayh says,

ب عالم قطب ارشاد حضرت يہ کتاب جو رسالہ مکيہ کے چند حصول کا فارسی ترجمہ ہے، قط گنگوہی نور الله مرقدہ کی تاليف ہے

Yeh kitaab jo risaala makiyyah ke chand husool ka faarsi tarjumah

hai, Qutube Aalam Qutube Irshaad Hadhrat Gangohi Nawwarallahu

Marqadahu ki ta'leef hai

This Kitaab which we are doing “Irshaad ul Mulook“ or rather

“Imdadus Sulook" which was the original, is a Farsi translation of a

few chapters of a Kitaab in Arabic called “Risaalah Makkiyah."

So Risaalah Makkiyah is a Kitaab in Arabic, and Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahimatullahi Alayh translated a few chapters of that into Farsi.

So this is the work of Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh.

He says,

حضرت قدس سرہ کے مفسر حالات حضرت کی سوانح تذکرة الرشيد ميں حضرت مولانا عاشق الاہی صاحب رحمت الله عليہ نے بہت بست تفصيل کے ساتھ دو جملوں ميں شائع فرمايی ہے

Hadhrat Quduse Sirrahu ke mufassir Haalaat Hadhrat ki sawaanih

Tazkiratur Rasheed me Hadhrat Maulana Aashiq Ilaahi Sahib

Rahmatullahi Alayh ne bohot bast tafseel ke saath do jumlon me

shaa'i farmai hai

He says that, as far as the detailed Biography of Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahmatullahi Alayh is concerned, Hadhrat Maulana Aashiq Ilaahi

Meert'hi Rahmatullahi Alayh, (the same Hadhrat we were talking

about, who has translated this Kitaab from Farsi into Urdu), wrote

the biography of his Sheikh, as we had previously mentioned.

The name of the biography is “Tazkiratur Rashid”

So he has mentioned or he has explained the life of Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahmatullahi Alayh in a lot of detail and he published it in two

volumes.

ہے اور اسکی تيسری جلد مکاتبے رشيديہ کے نام سے ان خطوط کا مجموعہ

Aur iski teesri jild makaatibe Rasheediyyah ke naam se in khutuut ka

majmua hai

He says that, 'the third volume of this Kitaab has been named

“Makaatib- e- Rasheediyyah" and it is actually considered a

different Kitaab on its own and it is a collection of his letters.'

Which letters?

جو حضرت گنگوہی رحمت الله عليہ نے اپنے پير اور مرشد کو، يا حضرت نے اپنے مريدين کو تحرير فرمائی

Jo Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh ne apne peer aur murshid ko,

ya Hadhrat ne apne Mureedeen ko tahrir farmayi

Those letters which either Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh

wrote to his Sheikh Hadhrat Haji Imdadul Muhajire Makki

Rahmatullahi Alayh, or those letters which Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahmatullahi Alayh wrote to his Mureedeen.

So this is a collection of his letters, you can just imagine how

beneficial that is, Maulana Zakariya Rahmatullahi Alayh himself says

that

يہ خطوط بہت ہی اہم ذخيرہ ہے

Ye khutuut bohot hi ehem zakheerah hai

These collection of letters is a very important and a beneficial

treasure.

So everything of our Akaabireen is beneficial.

Generally with regards to our Akaabireen there would be three

categories of compilations;

• One category of compilation would be their Mawa’iz and their

Bayanaat, - in other words their lectures, their talks, their speeches

their bayans, would be transcribed and compiled.

And within that would be included the Majaalis, the transcriptions of

the Majlises of our Akaabireen.

• The second category of compilation would be the Malfuzat of our

Akaabireen, in other words, the statements and the quotes of our

Akaabireen - the things which they said.

Normally these are shorter than the Bayan.

The Bayan is long and a Malfuz is a saying which is considerably

shorter, although sometimes it get a bit long, but generally speaking,

Malfuzat are shorter pieces of advice compared to the Bayanaat and

the Mawa’iz.

Many times the Malfuzat are taken from the Bayanaat.

In other words, what happens is that, the Bayan is divided into

pieces and the most important parts of the Bayan are taken and

compiled as Malfuzat.

• And the third category of compilations of our Akaabireen would be

“Makaateeb” - their letters.

Basically these are letters that they wrote to either their Sheikh or

to their Mureedhs, or even to other people.

And these letters would be filled with Ilm, and a lot of advices and a

lot of very important points which would not normally be mentioned

in the previous two compilations, in other words in the Bayanaat and

in the Malfuzat.

The reason being, because the letter is written to one specific

person.

So the issue which is being addressed is of a specific person and

according to his Haalaat, the Shaykh is addressing the issue and is

giving advices.

So he mentions such things which normally would not mention in the

public Bayans and the Malfuzat etc.

So that is why, these letters of our senior great Akaabireen, like

Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh are literally very deep,

precious, profound treasures whose value we cannot even imagine...

Alhamdullilah most of our Akaabireen, they have their “Makaateeb“ -

(their letters), which have been compiled.

Maulana Zakariya Rahmatullahi Alayh himself, his letters have also

been complied.

In fact there are a number of different compilations of his letters.

Alhamdullilah I have one compilation of his letters, “Maktuubaate

Maulana Zakariya Rahmatullahi Alayh“ which is in two very thick

volumes.

These are all his letters to certain people, which have been collected

and compiled, in that Kitaab of Maulana Zakariya Rahimahullah.

The third volume which was “Makaateebe Rasheediyyah".

Hadhrat Maulana Zakariya is saying, that it is a very important

treasure.

اور تذکرة الرشيد ميں حضرت قدس سرہ کے حالات بہت ہی تفصيل سے لکھے گئے ہيں

Aur Tazkiratur Rasheed me Hadhrat Quduse Sirrahu ke haalaat

bohot hi tafseel se likhe gaye hai

He repeats again,

'In “Tazkiratur Rashid", Hadhrat Gangohi’s life has been written in a

lot of detail.

جسکو تفصيل ديکھنی ہو، تذكرة الرشيد کو ديکھے

Jisko tafseel dekhni ho, Tazkiratur Rashid ko dekhe

Whoever wants to go through the whole life of Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahimahullah, and it is definitely worth it, and very beneficial, then

he should read “Tazkiratur Rashid“.

Tazkiratur Rashid is also available as an online PDF, but obviously it

is in Urdu.

رحمت الله عليہ کے مختصر حالات، اپنی کتاب اوجز اقدس گنگوہی اور يہ ناکارہ بھی حضرت

شرح موطأ إمام مالك کے مقدمہ ميں اور لامي الظراري علي جامع البخاري ميں بزبانے -المسالک عربی لکھ چکا ہے

Aur ye naakara bhi Hadhrat e Aqdas Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh ke

mukhtasar haalaat, apni Kitaab اوجز المسالك Awjazul Masaalik شرح موطأ

لامي sharah Muwatta e Imaam Malik ke muqaddame me aur امام مالك

Laami u Dharaari Alaa Jami'ul Bukhari me الظراري علي جامع البخاري

bazabaane Arbi likh chuka hai

He says, I have also written in brief, the life of Hadhrat Gangohi in

two of my Kitaabs.

• In one Kitaab, in the introduction of أوجز المسالك “Awjazul Masaalik”

Which is actually a شرح (Sharah), a commentary of the famous

Hadith Kitaab موطأ امام مالك “Muwataa Imam Malik".

• And the second Kitaab where he has written the brief life of

Hadhrat Gangohi Rahimahullah is لامي البراري “Laami ud dharari" which

is a commentary of Bukhari Shareef.

So there in the introduction in the Arabic language, he has written

the very brief life history of Maulana Rashid Gangohi Rahimahullah.

Question

Is letter a private affair?

Do we have to seek for permission before printing someone’s

letters?

Or we don’t need to ask for permission?

Answer

Jee, definitely permission is required because a letter is a private

thing.

Obviously when these letters are published, it is with the prior

permission of the Sheikh and also besides that, the names are not

mentioned in the letter which are printed.

Although it is a private thing, but when you remove the name, now it

becomes something which hasn’t got an identity of who the letter

was meant for. (Who the letter is about)

And in that way, the letters have been compiled without identities.

The names are never mentioned, unless the letter is such that

mentioning the name will not be a problem, and the person who is

being addressed also gives permission then that is different case

altogether.

Generally names are not mentioned,

If it is such a private thing, the letter is published, but without the

identity.

It depends on the different Haalaat, of what is the nature and

content of the letters.

🔹Now here is going to write a summary of what he wrote in his

Kitaabs.

انکا خلاصہ يہ ہے، کہ حضرت اقدس مولانا الحاج رشيد احمد ابن مولانا ہدايت احمد ابن القاضی پير بخش الايوبی الانصاری کی ولادت

In ka khulaasah yeh hai, ke Hadhrat e Aqdas Maulana Al Haaj

Rasheed Ahmad Ibne Maulana Hidayat Ahmad Ibnul Qaadhi Peer

Baksh Al Ayyubi Al Ansari ki Wilaadat

So this is basically a bit of his lineage.

• His name is Rasheed Ahmad.

• His father’s name is Hidayat Ahmad .

• His grandfather’s name is Qazi peer Bakhsh Al Ayyubi Al Ansari

Rahimahumullah.

• He was born on the 6th of Dhul Qaada 1284 Hijri.

• He was born in Gangoh, which is a place in UP India which is why he

is referred to Gangohi.

UP in India is a very 'Ulamaa rich place.'

The place has produced many great Ulamaa and Awliya.

جبکہ حضرت اقدس قدس حضرت قدس سرہ کے والد ماجد کا انتقال سن بارہ سو سيبانوے ميں ہوا،

سرہ کی عمر سات برس کی تھی

Hadhrat Quduse Sirrahu ke waalid maajid ka intiqaal san bara so

sebaanwe me huwa jab ke Hadhrat e Aqdas Quduse Sirrahu ki umar

saat baras ki thi

• Hadhrat Gangohi’s father’s death occurred in 1291.

(The date which is written in the kitaab is printed wrong)

Hadhrat Gangohi’s father’s death occurred in 1291Hijri, when

Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh was seven years of age.

حضرت کے والد ماجد مولانا ہدايت احمد صاحب اکابر علماء ميں تھے

Hadhrat ke waalid maajid Maulana Hidayat Ahmad Sahib Akaabir

Ulamaa me the

His father was also a very great Aalim, and he was from the Akaabir,

from the elderly and the senior Ulamaa.

اور جامع شريعت اور تريقت تھے

Aur Jame Shariat aur tareeqat the

And he was an embodiment of both the Shariat in as far as the Ilm

and the knowledge of Quran and Hadith is concerned, he was an

expert in that.

Similarly, he was also a very great Sheikh and a Wali of Allah.

اور حضرت شاہ غلام علی صاحب مجددين نقش بندی کے خلفاء ميں تھے

Aur Hadhrat Shah Ghulam Ali Sahib Mujaddideen Naqshbandi ke

khulafaa me the

He was a Khalifa of the great Shaykh, Hadhrat Shah Ghulam Ali

Naqshbandi.

حضرت قدس سرہ نے ابتدائ کتب فارسيہ، اپنے بڑے بھای مولانا انايت احمد صاحب سے پڑھی، اور کچھ اپنے ماموں حضرت مولانا محمد تقی صاحب سے پڑھی

Hadhrat Quduse Sirrahu ne ibtidai kutube faarsiyyah, apne bare

Bhai Maulana Inayat Ahmad Sahib se parhi, aur kuch apne maamu

Hadhrat Maulana Muhammad Taqi Sahib se parhi

Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh learnt the introductory Farsi

Kitaabs from his elder brother, Maulana Inaayat Ahmad, and some

from his maternal uncle, Maulana Muhammad Taqi.

ر عربی کی ابتدائ کتابيں کسب رامپور ضلہ سہارنپور ميں پڑھیاو

Aur Arbi ki ibtidai kitaabe kasbe Rampur Dhila Saharanpur me parhi

And he did not study the introductory Arabic Kitaabs in Gangoh. He

studied those in Rampur.

Rampur is another area/town, which is also in the district of

Saharanpur.

اسکے بعد تکميلے علوم عربيہ کے ليے، جب آپ کی عمر سترہ برس کی تھی، اس وقت حضرت ہدايت النحو پڑھا کرتے تھے، وہاں کے قيام ميں بعض متفرقہ اساتذہ سے کتاب پڑھی

Uske baad takmeele Uloom Arabiyyah ke liye, jab aap ki umar satrah

baras ki thi, is waqt Hadhrat Hidayatun Nahw parha karte the wahaa

ke qiyaam me baaz mutafarriq asaatidha se kitaabe parhi

When Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh was 17, then he went to

Delhi to complete his Alim course, he was studying the kitaab

called, "Hidayatun Nahwa."

Hidayatun Nahwa is a Kitaab which is Arabic grammar.

He also studied some other Kitaabs from a few of the Ustadh who

were present there.

مولانا مملوک علی صاحب نانوتوی نور الله مرقدہ سے اور علوم عربيہ کے زيادہ حصہ استاد الکل

س وقت دلھی کے مشہور مدرسہ عربی کاج ميں ملازم تھےجو ا

Aur uloom e Arabiyyah ka zyaada hissa Ustaadhul Kul, Maulana

Mamluk Ali Sahib Nanotwi Nawwarallahu Marqadahu se jo us waqt

Delhi ke Mash'hur Madrassah Arabic Kaalej me mulaazim the

He studied most of his Kitaabs from the great Ustadh, Hadhrat

Maulana Mamluk Ali Nanotwi Rahmatullahi Alayh, who was at that

time an Ustadh in the very famous Madrassa which was in Delhi at

that time was known as the “Arabic College “ .

It was just known like that, it wasn’t a college, it was actually a

Madrassa.

حضرت اقدس گنگوہی قدس سرہ قاضی صدرا شمس بازغہ وغيرہ کے استاد الکل مولانا مملوک علی کے سامنے ايسا پڑھتے تھے جيسا کہ حافظ قرآن پڑھتا تھا

Hadhrat e Aqdas Gangohi Quduse Sirrahu Qaazi Sadraa Shams

Baazigha wagherah ke ustaadul kul Maulana Mamluk Ali ke saamne

esa parte the jesa ke Haafiz Quran parta tha

These are just the names of a few Kitaabs which he studied from his

Ustadh, Maulana Mamluk Ali.

He studied in front of him in such a way, the way a Hafiz would be

reciting the Quran.

Yanike these Kitaabs which were actually very difficult Kitaabs,

these are Kitaabs in logic and philosophy etc, and he would be

studying those Kitaabs and he would be reciting them off by heart,

from cover to cover like how a Hafiz of Quran recites the Quran.

That is the method in which he would be reciting these Kitaabs in

front of his Ustadh.

A very far cry from today’s students.....

This is the effort that he put in his studies, and study his Kitaabs

and that is what connection he had with his studies that he would

actually have memorised these Kitaabs word for word just like how a

Hafiz would memorise the Quran.

Yanike, how a person would recite Sura Ikhlas, that is how he would

be reciting these Kitaabs.

And as I said, these are not easy Kitaabs, they are actually very

difficult....

مقول کی بعض کتابيں علامہ شہيد مفتی صدردين سے بھی پڑھی

Maquul ki baaz kitaabe Allamah Shaheed Mufti Sadruddeen se bhi

parhi

He also studied some other Kitaabs of logic and philosophy from

another Ustadh, Mufti Saddrudeen Rahmatullahi Alayh.

اور حديث شريف کی جملہ کتب بقية الصرف حجة السلف شيخ المشايخ حضرت شاہ عبد الغنی صاحب مجددين نقش بندی سے ايسے انھماک اور مشغولی کے ساتھ پڑھے ہيں، کہ کھانا پينا اور سونے کی جملہ ضروريات ميں سات گھنٹہ خرچ ہوتے تھے

Aur Hadith Shareef ki jumla kutub Baqiyyatus Saraf Hujjatul Salaf,

Shaykhul Masha'ikh Hadhrat Shah AbdulGhani Sahib Mujaddideen

Naqshbandi se, ese inhimaaq aur mashghuli ke saath parhe hai, ke

khaana peena aur sone ki jumla zaruriyaat me saat ghanta kharch

hote the

And all the Hadîth Kitaabs, in other words the senior level Kitaabs,

he studied at the feet of the greatest Muhadith of the time, his

name was Shah Abdul Ghani.

And all of our chains of Hadîth, whoever has studied Bukhari etc,

the chain goes through him.

Yaani ke all the Ulamaa of Deoband, every Deobandi Alim, his chain

of Hadîth goes through Hadhrat Shah Abdul Ghani Mujjadiddi

Rahmatullahi Alayh.

He says, that he studied these Hadîth Kitaabs, we are talking about

the Hadîth Kitaabs like Bukhari Shareef, Muslim etc, with such

devotion, and absorption, that for his eating, drinking, sleeping, and

every other type of human need which we normally have, all of that,

he would only spend seven hours on them!

And the rest of the day, which would mean seventeen hours out of

every twenty four hours he would be studying.

He would fulfill every other need in those seven hours!!!

So you can just imagine, seventeen hours was spent in studying

Kitaabs.

That is a lot of time!

So again this is a very great lesson for the students of Deen.

This is how our Akaabireen used to study and this is how they

reached such a high level.

Today we expect to put in a few hours and we want to reach that

level, and even those few hours is also difficult for us, that way a

person cannot expect to go very far.

اور جملہ علوم اور فنون سے فراغت کے بعد جبکہ حضرت قدس سرہ کی عمر شريف اکيس سال کی تھی، اپنے وطن گنگوہ تشريف لا کر درسے تدريس ميں مشغول ہو گيے

Aur Jumla Uloom aur Funoon se faraaghat ke baad jabke Hadhrat

Quduse Sirrahu ki umar Shareef ekiis saal ki thi, apne watan Gangoh

tashreef laa kar darse tadrees me mashghul hogaye

He said, after Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh had completed

all his studies, in other words, officially graduated as an Alim, he was

at the age of twenty one.

He was done with all of his studies by then, which is actually quite a

young age.

He then returned back to his homeland Gangoh and became involved

in learning and teaching.

In other words, in imparting his knowledge, he started to teach in

the Madressa.

I just remembered, one of my Ustadh’s who taught me in Darul

Uloom Azadville, it is famously known about him, that he had

completed his Mufti course as a fully qualified Mufti, at the age of

seventeen.

Now considering that he had studied obviously in India, and in India

the Alim course takes between eight and ten years, depending on

which Madrassah it is, and then another one or two years for the

Iftaa course, so we are looking at between nine and twelve years of

study.

And he was done with those nine - twelve years of study, at the age

of seventeen.

So you can just calculate at what age, he had actually started off.

اور مختلف علوم نحوہ معانی، فقہ، تفسير، اور حديث کی تدريس ميں ہما وقت اشتغال رہتا تھا

Aur mukhtakif Uloom nahwa ma'ani, fiqah, tafseer, aur Hadith ki

tadrees me huma waqt ishtighaal rehta tha

He says that, he was continuously involved in teaching all of these

different subjects whether it was grammar, eloquence, Fiqh, Hadîth

Tafseer of the Quran etc.

After that, for some time (the dates have been mentioned, but as I

said that the dates seem to be in error, I have to confirm them)

For a certain period, he continued to teach all these subjects and

then after that he started to teach Hadith only.

And normally in the final year of the Alim course, the six main

Hadith Kitaabs are taught.

Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood, Nasai and Ibn Majah.

These are the six Hadîth Kitaabs which are taught in the final year.

So, he devoted himself to teaching only Hadîth and he would single

handedly teach all of these six Kitaabs, which is a very great feat!

For those who know how big these Kitaabs are, normally in the

Madrassah's today, all of these six Kitaabs, are divided amongst

many Ustaadh.

It is only then with a lot of difficulty, these Kitaabs are completed

in the whole year, because of the big size of each of these Kitaabs.

For example, just Bukhari Shareef alone approximately, is about one

thousand two hundred pages.

It is not only the six Kitaabs which are being taught, there are other

Kitaabs in the final year which are being taught as well.

But Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh would teach all six Kitaabs

on his own!!

It is something which is perhaps very difficult to do in today’s times.

How much preparation goes in teaching one of these six Kitaabs, and

someone teaches all six Kitaabs single handedly, it is not something

easy, it is a very difficult thing!

He would start off the Dars in Shawwal that is after Ramadhan.

Ramadhan would be holiday, and the new academic year would begin

in Shawwal.

شوال ميں دورہ حديث شريف کا سبق شروع ہوتا، اورشعبان ميں جملہ کتب حديث کی تعليم پوری فرماتے

Shawwal me Daura e Hadith Shareef ka sabaq shuruu hota, aur

Sha'baan me jumla kutube Hadith ki Ta'leem puri farmaate

And he would start teaching these six Kitaabs in Shawwal, and by

Shabaan, yaani ke before Ramadhan, he would complete all the

Kitaabs of Hadîth.

He would have completed teaching all the Kitaabs of Hadîth.

This was with regards to his Academic Career.

Going on to discussing with regards to his Spiritual line...

Hadhrat says,

اور اپنی تعليم سے فراغت کے بعد دلہی سے واپسی پر، جبکہ حضرت گنگوہی درس تدريس ميں مشغول تھے، غالبا سن بارا سو اچھياسٹھ ميں، ايک ضرورت سے ثانا بھون جانا ہوا

Aur apni taalim se faraaghat ke baad Delhi se waapsi par, jab ke

Hadhrat Gangohi darse tadrees me mashghul the, ghaaliban san bara

so ichyasat me ek zarurat se Thana Bhawan jaana huwa

Hadhrat says,

'After Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh had completed his Aalim

course, and had already returned from Delhi, he was in his homeland

of Gangoh and teaching at that time.

Approximately in 1266 Hijri, due to some need, he went to a place

called Thana Bhawan.'

Thana Bhawan is the famous town again in UP, it is in the same India

it is not very far from Gangoh, it is the very Mubarak town, where

obviously Hadhrat Thanvi Rahmatullahi Alayh comes from, and it is

also the same town where Hadhrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajire Makki

Rahmatullahi Alayh also comes from.

So he went there for some need.

فين شيخ المشائخ حضرت الحاج امداد الله صاحب مہاجرے مکی اور وہاں قطب العالم سلطان العار

نور الله مرقدہ و اعلی الله مراتبه سے حضرت حافظ ظامن صاحب رحمت الله عليہ کی سفارش پر بيعت کی نوبت آئی جسکی تفصيل تذکرة الرشيد کے وضاحت ميں تفصيل سے موجود ہے

Aur waha Qutbul Aalam Sultan ul Aarifeen Shaykhul Masha'ikh

Hadhrat Al Haaj Imdaadullah Sahib Muhajire Makki نور الله مرقدہ و اعلي

Nawwarallahu Marqadahu Wa A'allahu Maraatibahu se الله مراتبه

Hadhrat Haafiz Zaamin Saahib Rahmatullahi Alayh ki sifaarish par

Baiyat ki naubat ayi jiski tafseel Tazkiratur Rasheed ke waza'at me

tafseel se mawjud hai

There he got Ba’iyat to Hadhrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajire Makki

Rahmatullahi Alayh, through the intercession of another very great

Wali of Allah whose name was Hafiz Zaamin Shaheed Rahmatullahi

Alayh.

(Hafiz Zaamin Rahmatullahi Alayh became Shaheed later on in the

war with the British.)

Hafiz Zaamin Rahmatullahi Alayh was very close to Haji Sahib

Rahmatullahi Alayh, so through his intercession he became

connected.

And the details of this incident, you will find in Tazkiratur Rashid.

So he has not mentioned it here.

The incident of his Ba'iyat is quite interesting, for whoever wants to

know they can inshallah consult that Kitaab.

That how Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh initially he wasn’t very

inclined to Tasawwuf at all.

He wasn’t inclined to having a Sheikh and all of that.

But then the way he got inclined, and the process which he went

through and how soon Hadhrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajire Makki

Rahmatullahi Alayh changed his life totally and gave him Khilafat etc.

all of that is quite a bit of detail and is mentioned in Tazkiratur

Rashid.

يہ تھانا بھون کی ہازری ايک روز کے ارادے سے تھی

Yeh Thana Bhawan ki haazri ek do roz ke iraade se thi

So Hadhrat writes a bit of that only, that initially Hadhrat Gangohi

Rahmatullahi Alayh had gone to Thana Bhawan with the intention for

staying there for only a day or two.

ليکن الله جل شانہ کو اپنے لطف و کرم سے سلوک کا مرتبہ عاليہ بھی موقہ پر عطا فرمانا تھا

Lekin Allah Jalla Sha'nuhu ko apne lutf wa karam se Sulook ka

martaba Aaliyah bhi mauqa par ataa farmana tha

However Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala also wanted to give Hadhrat

Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh the opportunity to be introduced to

Sulook, in other words the effort of Tasawwuf which was a very

foundational effort, and still is the effort at present.

So Allah wanted to connect him, because obviously great work was to

be taken from him.

اسليئے ان روز و فردہ ميں چايس روز قيام ہوگيا

Is liye in roz wa farda me, chaalees roz qiyaam hogaya

This is what happened....

Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh said, 'I will go back home after

one two days, I will back after one two days, after one week, after

ten days, and like that he ended up spending the whole forty days

were spent with Hadhrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajire Makki

Rahmatullahi Alayh.

اور اعلی حضرت مہاجرے مکی نور الله مرقدہ سے خلافت و اجازت بيعت لے کر جو بيعت کے ساتوے ہی دن مل گئی تھی، جسکی تفصيل قابلے ظيد تذكرة الرشيد جلد اول ميں ہے، گنگوہ واپسی

تشريف لاے

Aur A'laa Hadhrat Muhaajire Makki Nawwarallahu Marqadahu se

Khilaafat Wa Ijaazate Ba'iyat le kar jo ba'iyat ke saatwe hi din mil

gayi thi, jiski tafseel Qaabile Deed Tazkiratur Rashid jild awwal me

hai, Gangoh waapas tashreef laye

And after forty days, he went back to his homeland already having

gotten Khilafat within seven days of Ba’iyat from Hadhrat Haji

Imdadullah Muhajire Makki Rahmatullahi Alayh.

And the incident of that also is quite interesting, it is something

which should be read and Hadhrat says, that is there in the first

volume of Tazkiratul Rashid.

Maybe someday we will discuss it.

Maulana Zakariya Rahmatullahi Alayh ends off that paragraph, he

says,

اس ناکارہ سے تعلق رکھنے والوں کو تذكرة الخليل اور تذکرة الرشيد کا مطالعہ بہت اہتمام سے

دونوں کتابيں بہت اہم ہے کرنا چاہيے،

Is naakara se Ta'alluq rakhne waalon ko Tazkiratul Khaleel aur

Tazkiratur Rashid ka mutala'ah bohot ehtemaam se karna chahiye,

donon kitaabe bohot ehem hai

All those people who are connected to this humble one, whoever is

connected to me, he is saying, they should be reading and studying

these two Kitaabs,

•Tazkiratul Khaleel, and

•Tazkiratur Rashid.

Because these two Kitaabs are very important.

Tazkiratul Khaleel is the biography of Hadhrat Maulana Khalil

Saharanpuri who is the Shaykh of Hadhrat Maulana Zakariya

Rahmatullahi Alayh himself, and Tazkiraur Rashid obviously is the

biography of Hadhrat Gangohi Rahmatullahi Alayh himself.

He says both Kitaabs are of utmost importance and beneficial.

So we also should try and study those Kitaabs as well.

Question and Answer

Q. Was Khilafat given within 7 days of being in the sohbat of Haji

Sahib Rahmatullahi Alayh or within 7 days of returning back home?

A. No, what happened was, he went into the companionship, into the

company of Haji Sahib Rahimahullahi Alayh, and after seven days of

becoming Ba'iyat, he was granted Khilafat.

But then he stayed on till the end of forty days and then there is

when he left and went back home.

Generally our Mashaikh always advice to spend at least spend forty

days in the company of your Shaykh; forty days at one go.

That is very important.