Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

Immabhai says, “Baba gave spiritual uplift to two moslems that I know.

Sheik Abdullah of my village came here (i.e., to Shirdi). Baba spoke to

him words of vairagya (dispassion). ‘If we die today, the third day would

follow. What is the use of house, land and other things to us?’ Sheik

Abdullah returned to our village. He left his house and property to his

wife and children, wandered in the streets and spent his nights near

tombs, muttering something always. He lived upon what people gave him and

did not care if he got nothing. He had developed wonderful powers during

these twelve years. Once he asked me not to go on my journey as, at a

particular place named by him on the path, there would be a serpent. As it

was daylight I did not heed his warning. But I found the serpent exactly

in the place named by him.

 

Abbas Sait, a beedie-seller of my place once said to Adbullah ‘Why do you

behave like a madman, giving up wife and relations?’ Abdullah said, ‘You

will come to know the same!’ Abdullah flung this closed fist, as though he

threw something at Abbas Sait and said, ‘You also become like that!’ From

that time the latter gave up his business, home and relations and is still

wandering about.

 

“In Bhopal of Varhad (Behar) one Anwar Khan lived; once he cam to Baba and

told him, I do not want samsara. He lived in the chavadi here for twelve

months. Baba then gave him a mantra, ‘Bismilla, kuliyo hio valkafiraono

nabudo Mabuduna’ etc., from the Koran and told him to repeat it hundred

and one times at midnight. Then he was to recite ‘Davut’. Baba then gave

him prasad of peda and told him to go to Baghadad in Arabia. He then went

to Bombay where Haji Kasim of Bombay help him with free passage to Arabia.

He has never returned thence.”

 

“Hida Beg of Kanad near Aurangabad came to Baba and stayed here (at

Shirdi). Moulvi Yakub of Delhi was here then, reading the Koran daily,

sitting in the mandap (frontyard of the musjid) during day and night. One

night about 8 p.m. Baba told Hida beg, ‘Do not stay here. Go to the

cantonment near Kanad (i.e., Aurangabad) and change your name as Punjab

Shah. Go and sit there; eat what you get’. He is till living there as a

saint and people revere him.”

 

“Mohammad Khan, a Rohilla of Newasa, was here with Baba. Once he lifted

the curtain to see Baba, who was talking to Mahalsapathy (i.e., at night).

Strange to say, he could not see Baba! He was getting queer and crazy. His

younger brother who was at Newasa, came to Shirdi to take him. Baba gave

udi and sent him back and he then became alright.”

 

(To be contd....)

 

Source http://www.saibharadwaja.org)