Sufis and Soldiers In Awrangzeb's Deccan

Introduction: Sufis and Soldiers in Awrangzeb’s Deccan. I. The Life of Baba Sa’id, called Palangposh. 1. Poem: In the name of Allah. 2. Notice of Baba Qul Mazid. 3. Baba Sa’id Serves Shyakh Darwihs Azizan. 4. Baba Sa’id is given leave to depart. 5. Baba Sa’id sets out. 6. Baba Sa’id meets with Khizr. 7. Baba Sa’id Slays the beast and Gains the Name Palangposh. 8. Baba Palangposh coems to Tashkent and is Initiated in the Kubrawiyya Path. 9. Baba Palangposh visits Mashhad. 10. Baba Palangposh’s visits Mecca and Medina. 11. The madman in the Battle against the Qalmaqs. 12. Foreknowledge of Offerings. 13. A Flood in the Deccan. 14. The Start and Flow of Recitation in the heart. 15. The Last days of Baba Palangposh. II. Baba Palangposh and Baba Musafir: their travels and Arrivals in the Deccan. 1. Baba Shah Musafir’s Early life and His Meeting with Baba Palangposh. 2. An Account of the Departure of Hazrat Shah Palangposh to Visit to the tomb of the king of Men Hazrat Murtaza Ali-May God Honour Him!- and the His departure for Balkh, the Mother of Cities, and of His going from there to Hindostan by way of Kabul: And of the departure of Hazrat Ishan [Baba Musafir] Following Him. 3. Notice of the Khirqa and the Instruction of the Noble order of the Naqshbandiiya. 4. A Pedigree of the Qalander Lineage Brought from Balkh to Awrangabad. 5. Another Link between the deccan and Wilayat. 6. Continuation of the Narrative of the travels of Shah Palangposh and Shah Musafir. 7. The rout of the Afghans near Hasan Abdal. 8. Baba Palangposh visits Kashmir. 9. Further Travels of Baba Musafir and Baba Palangposh. 10. A Trance on Shipboard. 11. Baba Palangposh visits Hasan Abdal Again and is joined by Baba Musafir in Awrangzbad. 12. The Sprinkling of the Rosewater. 13. Baba Palangposh Bestows Khilafat on Baba Musafir. 14. Baba Palangposh in Hasan Abdal: The Chastening of Sharif Khan. 15. Objections of Baba Musafir: Baba Palangposh Explains His Role in Redistributing Wealth. 16. Baba Musafir’s Pilgrimage to Mecca. III> Baba Musafir settles in Awrngabad. 1. Baba Musafir is drawn back to India. 2. Baba Musafir returns to Awrangabad. 3. Baba Musafir Finds the site of His Takya. 4. The founding of the Takya. 5. Tiling the Mosque Roof. 6. Building of the Bungalow. 7. More Visitors to the Takya. 8. The Site is Enclosed and the Mosque Rebuilt. 9. Construction of the Step Well. 10. Erection of the Waterwheel. 11. The supply of Water from the Reservior. 12. Notice of the Especial States of Baba Shah Musafir. 13. The School for Orphans. 14. Provision for Widow and other helpless women. 15. Visits to the Sick, and Attending Funerals and Invitations. IV: Baba Palangposh Joint the Army of Nawwab Ghazi al-din Khan in the Deccan. 1. Notice of the coming of Baba Palangposh from Hasan Abdal to Awrangabad: Close to Baba Musafir: And of His going to the Army of Mir Shihab Al-din. 2. Baba Palangposh tells of His Mission in the Deccan. 3. The dream of Mir Shihab Al-din. 4. Baba Palangposh Meets Mir Shibhab al-din. 5. The Rise of Mir Shihab al-din, Nawwab Ghazi al-din Khan Bahadur, Feroz Jang. 6. Baba Palangposh in the Wars of Ghazi al-din Khan. 7. An Ancedote of Khawaja Baha al-din Naqshband. 8. An Anecdote of Amir Kulal. V: The Practice of Baba Palangposh. 1. Baba palangposh visits the Bazaar. 2. The Entourage of Baba palangposh. 3. The Entourage of Baba Palangosh on the March. 4. Baba palangosh’s intervention in the Affairs of Rum. 5. Sayyid Niyaz Khan learns to Give an offering. 6. A Trader in cloth from Bengal. 7. The Falconer’s Glove. 8. Another / Story/: Money in a Handkerchief. 9. Another/Story/: The Gift of a Leg of a Horse. 10. The Murder of a Darwish by a boy. 11. The Great Lamp. 12. Another tale of a Lamp. 13. The Marriage of the future Nawwab Nizam al-Mulk. 14. Three Faqirs at the Siege of Jundgarh. 15. Nadhr Withheld and Calamity Befalls. 16. An Intrusion into Baba Palangposh ‘s Tent. 17. A Nadhr Leads to a land Grant. 18. A Darwish in a Graveyard. 19. A Horse Given to a Seller of Fruit. 20. A Grandmother’s Hospitality. 21. Nadhr is not offered for nothing. 22. Making a Man God. 23. Saved from Drowning. 24. Ghazi al-din khan Refuses of offer Nadhr and is Defeated. 25. Release from a Maratha fortress. 26. A Healing dream. 27. The Blindness of Ghazi al-din-Khan. 28. A Saying of Khwaja Baha al-din Naqshband. 29. Authorial Vanity Corrected. 30. Baba Palangposh visits the tombs at Rawza and is received by Baba Musafir. 31. The Parish of Baba Palangpsoh. 32. Baba palagposh’s Nightly vigils. 33. Saved from two Fighting horses. 34. Oblivious of Twelve days fasting. 35. A Dream of a Must Camel. VI: The States of Hazrat Ishan, that is to say Baba Musafir –May God Sanctify His Secret! 1. In the Services of Baba Palangposh. 2. Baba Musafir on Holy Poverty. 3. Baba Musafir on the Making of a Faqir. 4. The Austerities of Baba Musafir. 5. Baba Musafir’s enforcement of Religious Law. 6. The Tobacco Smokers. 7. Baba Musafir’s Public performance of Prayer. 8. Baba Musafir’s daily Regimen. 9. Baba Musafir’s Lack of Worldly Possessions. 10. His Celibacy and Kindness to Orphans, Widows and the Sick. 11. Those who find and those who do not find. 12. Baba Musafir’s Travels in South Asia: Injury and Break through. 13. The Misbeahaviour of Baba Palangposh’s Children and Baba Musafir’s Progress. VII: Notice of the Powers of Discovery of Hazrat Ishan, that is to say Baba Musafir. 1. A prediction of death: the contingent and the Intevitable. 2. The Bestowal of a Son. 3. Intercession for the Sick. 4. Renewal of a Land Assignment. 5. Concerning the Power of Discovery. 6. A breakthrough on the Spiritual Path. 7. Correspondence Regarding a Spiritual Constriction. 8. An Arrangement to pass the Night in the tomb of Baba Palangposh. 9. Concerning the Unity of Being: A confirmatory dream. 10. One Told in a dream to become Baba Musafir’s disciple. 11. The Garden by the River. 12. Employment for men of Wilayat in the Deccan. 13. “The Man with two Shirts is Accursed”. 14. Exhilarants and the thorn of the Hemp Plant. 15. In his Youth the Compiler has an Impulse. 16. A Notice of the Spiritual Exercise of Hazrat Ishan. 17. Distant Aid in a Siege by Marathas. 18. Impoliteness over a dancing boy. 19. A Maratha Attack on Awrangabad. 20. A Case of Plague Averted. 21. An Uncompleted Pilgrimage. 22. Holy Dying. 23. The War of Jahandar Shah and Farrukhsiyar; The Fate of Abd al-Samad Khan. 24. The Construction of the Tank: An Idler Punished. 25. A Curb on Musical parties. 26. A Gift of Plundered books. 27. A spell lifted from an Afghan Youth. 28. Events after the Death of Awargzeb: An intended visit of the Emperor Bahadur Shah to Baba Musafir, and the Grant of a village. 29. The Visits of Turktaz Khan. 30. The Prosperity of Khwaja Abd Allah. 31. A Molestation by Jinns. 32. A dream and a vision. 33. Evil companions and Wine-drinking. 34. Hajji Hasan cured of Sickness. 35. Hajji Hasan and the dancing boy. 36. Hajji Hasan Drinks Again. 37. A Mortal wound in a Bazaar Brawl. 38. A traveler Preserved from Maratha Attacks. 39. A Slave Killed by an Afghan. 40. A Premonition of Death. 41. Events after the death of Awrangzeb: Taking Sides in the War of Succession. 42. A Dancing-boy in the Takya. 43. A Vision of the Complier at the age of seven. 44. A Seer of Khichri. 45. The Compiler‘s fever: Cure by Resort to Baba Palangposh’s tomb. 46. Mir Mahmud thrown from a Horse. 47. Bad characters in the Takys leave for Surat and die. 48. A Quarrel over a jagir. 49. An Obedient Snake. 50. Equal Honour to the four Caliphs. 51. Early Days at the Takya : The offering of Chin Qilich Khan. 52. A Cloth for the Recitation. 53. A Meeting with a Darwish Foretold. 54. Hazrat writes an amulet. 55. An Amlet for the Falling Sickness. 56. A Child in Ramazan. 57. Repentance from Drinking Wine and Watching Dancing Girls. 58. A Dream Presaging Victory and Preferment. 59. Paying the Troops. 60. A Wife’s choice of the Sufi Path. 61. An Illness Cured. 62. Jars of Grain in the Takuya. 63. Intoxication and impertinence punished. 64. Death of an impolite servitor. 65. The Parentage of Mir Muhammad Yusuf, His Upbringing by Baba Musafir and His subsequent History. 66. The Tabarruk of a Short Coat. 67. A bone swallowed at a feast. 68. Nizam al-Mulk’s last visit to Baba Musafir: The Gift of the Cloak of Succession to the Compiler. 69.

The Last of the death of Baba Musafir :The Gift of the Cloak of Succession to the Compiler. 70. Recollection of the Death of a Shaykh. 71. The Disposition of Baba Musafir’s Property. 72. The Last Hours of Baba Musafir. VIII: Supplementary Narratives of the States of Hazrt Ishan, that is to say Hazrat Shah Musafir. 1. Feasting the Shyakh. 2. Lamentable Consequences of Importunacy. 3. Release from Prison and Delivery from Sickness. 4. Benefits of a visit by Baba Musafir. 5. Patterned Black chintz. 6. Verses on the Construction of the Great Tank in the Takya. IX: Notices of the Khalifas and Friends of Hazrat Ishan, that is to say Hazrat Shah Musaffir, May God Sanctify his Secret! 1. Mir Mahmud: 1.1 Mir Mahmud’s rainmaking. 1.2 Mir Mahmud Heals the falling Sickness. 1.3 Another case of the Falling Sickness. 1.4 Mir Mahmud’s Winter Madness. 1.5 Mir Mahmud and Khwaja Yadgar Khan and His Slave Fazil. 1.6 The Relative Elevation of the Khalifas. 1.7 The Death of Mir Mahmud. 1.8 Must a Faqir Beg? 1.9 A Sickness Transferred from Baba Musafir to Mir Mahmud. 1.10 Discovering the Missing Book. 2. The Khalifa ‘Abd al-Rahim. 2.1 The travels of Abd al-Rahim. 2.2 Abd al-Rahim: Signs in His infancy, His marriage and his call to the Sufi Path. 3. The Hajji Abd al-Karim, Brother of the Khalifa Abd al-Rahim. 3.1 His Call to the Spiritual Life. 3.2 Ecstasy at the Wedding Feast. 3.3 Abd al-Karim’s Pilgrimage; His return to Hindostan; He Settles in Lahore. 3.4 Hajji Abd al-Karim’s Prophecy of Bahadur Shah ‘s Accession. 3.5 Abd al-Karim and the Gunshot Wound of Muhaamd Amin Beg. 3.6 Hajji Abd al-Karim’s return form Mecca to Awrangabad. 3.7 The Hajji Sets out again: His Travels and death in Lahore. 3.8 The departure of the Khalifa Abd al-Rahim and his Family. 3.9 Abd al-Rahim brings Mir Sultan’s Quest to its Conclusion. 3.10 The Kahlifa Abd al-Rahim Reads thoughts. 4. Notice of the Khalifa Khwaja Muhammad Sa’id. 4.1 His Early life and enrolment as a Murid. 4.2 Khwaja Muhammad Sa’id Prophesies the Emperor Farrukhsiyar’s Victories. 4.3 His last journey to Kashmir and death. 4.4 Joy in the Rains Perceived. 4.5 Khwaja Muhammad Sa’id’s Letter from Delhi to the Compiler. 4.6 A vision in the night. 4.7 A boy catches a thief in his House. 5. Notice of the martyred Shah Qalandar. 5.1 His Early years and call to the Religious life. 5.2 Shah Qalandar Hears of Baba Palangposh from Wandering darwishes and joints their Company. 5.3 Shah Qalandar’s Stay in Kabul. 5.4 Shah Qalandear Enters a Desrerted Mansion in Rohtasgarh and is beaten by a mughal. 5.5 Shah Qalandar quarrels with the Older Faqirs; He comes to Lahore and Stays there. 5.6 Shah Qalandar travels to Mutlan and Neglects the Quest. 5.7 Shah Qalandar’s dream of the Prophet. 5.8 Shah Qaandar visits Delhi with the other Faqirs. 5.9 Shah Qalandar Travels to Awrangabad and Gulbarga. 5.10 Shah Qalandar’s vision of Baba Palangposh, and his Reception by Him. 5.11 Baba Palangposh Makes arrangements for shah Qalandar’s Stay. 5.12 Life in the Entourage of Baba Palangposh. 5.13 Shah Qalandar Serves His pir on the March. 5.14 Shah Qalandar Deserts and returns. 5.15 Shah Qalandar’s Connection with Nawwab Nizam al –Mulk. 5.16 The Murder of Shah Qalandar. 5.17 Shah Qalandar’s Connections with Baba Musafir and with the Takya at Awrangbad. 5.18 Shah Qalandar sends watermelons form Phulmari. 5.19 Shah Qalandar’s visit to Hindostan in the Company of Nizam Al-Mulk. 5.20 Shah Qalandar Slept with head to the South. 6. Notice of Hajji Ashur: His First Vision. 6.1 His First Vision. 6.2 Hajji Ashur’s Second Vision. 6.3 Hajji Ashur’s third Vision. 6.4 Hajji Ashur’s Fourth Vision. 6.5 Some Further Visions of Lights. 6.6 Vision of Medina and the Prophet. 6.7 Hajji Ashur’s Vision of the passing away of Baba Musafir and the Succession of Shah Mahmud. 7. Notice of Mawlana Mushfiqi. 7.1 Departure to Hindostan and Lahore. 7.2 Mawlana Mushfiqi’s Mission in Badakhsahan: His Letter from there. 8. Notice of Sufi Muhammad Wafa. 9. Notice of Mir Arab. 9.1 Mir Arab Becomes a Murid: Problems of His Family. 9.2 Mir Arab Rejoins the Army but comes back to the Takya. 9.3 Mir Arab’s Family take him to Hindostan. 10. Notice of Baba Shah Khadim. 10.1 His Service in the Takya, Travels and Behaviour. 10.2 Shah Khadim as a pir. 10.3 His character and Habits. 10.4 Last Illness. 10.5 His Deathbed. 10.6 Shah Khadim’s Grave. 10.7 Shah Khadim’s word Unheeded. 11. Notice of the pilgrim to the Holy Places Hajji Qasim. 11.1 Hajji Qasim’s Pilgrimage: His Joins Baba Palangposh. 11.2 Hajji Qasim Sets up at Indpur. 11.3 Return to Awrangabad. 11.4 Qasida by Hajji Qasim in Praise of Baba Musafir. 12. Notice of Shah Kuchak. 12.1 Shah Kuchak’s Service in the Takya. 12.2 Mir Adina’s Misbehaviour and Repentance. 12.3 Shah Kuchak Dissuaded from Returning to Wilayat. 12.4 Shah Kuchak’s Illness and Death. 13. Notice of Shah Nazir. 13.1 In the Service of Baba Palangposh. 13.2 Later Movements in the Deccan: Shah Nazir joins Nawwab Ghazi Al-Din. 13.3 Travels as a Pir in India. 13.4 Shah Nazir at the Siege of Gurdaspur. 13.5 His journey to Balkh and Death. 14. Notice of KHwaja Alim. 15. Notice of Mawlana Abd al-Jalil. 16. Notice of Mirza Ibrahim Arab, Known as Shah Arab. 16.1 The Sack of a village: Distress of Shah Arab. 16.2 Shah Arab’s family take care of him. 16.3 Travels on an Ox. 16.4 From the Emperor’s Camp to Awrangabad. 16.5 Shah Arab falls senseless before baba Musfir. 16.6 Treatment at the Takya. 16.7 Shag Arab Murders a Rafizi in Kabul. 16.8 Shah Arab’s Condition on Arrival at the Takya. 16.9 Shah Arab’s Recovery and his tasks at the Takya. 16.10 Visits to Saintly tombs at night: Wild beasts on the Hill. 16.11 Shah Arab’s infirmity. 16.12 Shah Arab goes on Pilgrimage. 16.13 Shah Arab’s Latter days in the Takya: his Intimation of the Emperor Awrangzeb’s death. 16.14 Shah Arab’s Ecstasy at a Hindi Verse. 16.15 A dream of the Compiler. 16.16 Shah Arab’s End. 17. Notice of Hazrat Akhond mulla Khamosh. 17.1 Schoolmaster at the Takya. 17.2 His Character. 17.3 His End. 18. Notice of Khwaja Mir Shah. 18.1 “When He came to Hindostan”. 18.2 Khwaja Mir Shah’s Illness and End. 19. Notice of Shah Jan Allah. 19.1 With baba Palangposh and at Navsari. 19.2 Visit to Awrangabad. 19.3 His last visit to Awrangabad and Death. 20. Notice of Hajji Sadiq. 20.1 Hajjji Sadiq comes to baba Musafir. 20.2 Punishment for revealing insight. 20.3 Hajji Sadiq’s travels. 20.4 Shah Turab Cured of Weariness. 20.5 Visiting a Sickbed in Delhi. 20.6 An Illness of the Computer transferred to the Hajji. 21. Notice of the Shah Haydar Tashkandi. 21.1 Early travels. 21.2 Shah haydar and the Sultan of Rum. 21.3 Shah Haydar’s Lantern. 21.4 The Death of Shah Haydar, the Washing of the Corpse nd the Tablet on His Grave. 22. Notice of Hazrat Khawaja Zakariya’Samarqandi. 22.1 His way of Life in Awrangabad. 22.2 His Second Pilgrimage and Return to Awrangabad. 22.3 A preserve of Quinces. 22.4 The Khwaja’s Opinion of Baba Musafir. 22.5 Khwaja Zakariya’s departure: Despatch to him of a Fur Coat. 22.6 Khwaja yadgar’s Remonstrance Regarding Baba Musafir. 22.7 The last journey of Khwaja Zakariya. 23. Notice of Khwaja Abd al-Wali Dahbidi Samarqandi. 24. Notice of Hazrat Khwaja Yadgar Dahbidi. Index of personal Names and books, Index of Places.

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