Some miracles of Hadhrat Khwaja 'Azeezaan 'Ali Ramiyatni (May Allah shower His Mercy on him)

  

Khwaja ‘Azeezaan ‘Ali Ramiyatni (May Allah shower His mercy on him) was a great saint of the Naqshbandi Order.  Here we present some miracles that were expressed at his hands.

 

Hadhrat Khwaja ‘Azeezan ‘Ali Ramiyatni used to sew cloth.  Every evening he would go to the cloth market and would buy up from those people who hadn’t been able to sell anything.  He would spend the whole night in meditation but by dawn 40 yards of cloth would be ready.  He would sell it in the market and whatever price he would get, would be divided into 3 equal parts.  One part he would spend on the scholars, the other part he would spend on the poor Sufis and the third on his own family.

 

Because of this, he has also been called Nassaaj and Maulana Rumi has said a couplet about him with the same honorific.

 

        Before entering Khwarizm, when the Khwaja reached the walls of the city along with his associates, he sent his associates to the rulers of the city with the request to stay in the city.  The Khwaja instructed his associates that they should get a written permission from the ruler.  When the ruler of the city and his nobles heard this request, they started laughing at the naivety of the dervishes.  However, the ruler gave them a written permission with his seal.

 

Now the Khwaja entered the city and busied himself in worship and striving in the path of Almighty Allah.  It was the custom of the Khwaja that he would bring 2 laborers to his house everyday.  He would order them to make their ablutions, to offer Salaat ul Zuhr and Salaat ul ‘Asr with him and to busy themselves in remembrance of Almighty Allah.  Later on, the Khwaja would give them their full day’s wages.  The laborers would deem this easy work and do as the Khwaja told them to.  The effect of the day’s company would be such that they would come to the Khwaja without him calling them.  Gradually, the devotees of the Khwaja increased.  A time came that a large throng of people would be present at his doors.  Among them were many influential people of the city

 

When the ruler of the city learned of this, he grew frightened that his rule would be threatened by the Khwaja.  He wanted to banish the Khwaja from the city.  When the Khwaja learned of this, he sent the permission letter with the seal to the ruler with the message:  We are here with your permission.  If you want to break your word, we will go away from here.  The ruler had forgotten his letter.  When reminded of it, he was embarrassed and acknowledged the high statue and the foresightedness of the Khwaja and entered his circle of devotees.

 

Once an important guest came to the Khwaja’s house.  As it happens, there was nothing in his house at that time.  The guest had to wait a long time and obviously the Khwaja was also distressed by this.  Suddenly a young man who sold food for a living and was a devotee of the Khwaja came and presented food to the Khwaja.  The Khwaja entertained the guest.  The young man’s coming at this time with the gift of food pleased the Khwaja immensely and he told the young man:  Whatever you wish for, ask, Allah-willing it will be fulfilled.  The young man was very intelligent.  He said:  O Khwaja!  I only wish that I should become as you are.  The Khwaja said:  It is very difficult.  You cannot bear it.  The young man humbly said:  That is my only wish.

 

The Khwaja held him by the hand and took him into seclusion with himself.  He graced the young man with his attention.  Thus, outwardly and inwardly the young man became as the Khwaja was.  The young man couldn’t bear it and died after about 40 days.  (A similar incident is also narrated about Hadhrat Khwaja Baqibillah)

 

Hadhrat Syed ‘Ata and the Khwaja (May Allah shower His mercy on them) were both contemporaries and sometimes they would meet as well.  In the beginning Hadhrat ‘Ata didn’t think well of the Khwaja and thus, he ended up disrespecting the Khwaja once.  In those very days, Mongols attacked from the desert and took the son of Hadhrat ‘Ata as captive.

 

Hadhrat ‘Ata was convinced that this was due to the disrespect of the Khwaja.  He apologized to the Khwaja and invited him to a feast.  The Khwaja accepted his invitation and went to the house of Hadhrat ‘Ata on the specified day.  In this feast, many famous scholars and Shaykhs were also present.  When the attendants laid the meal-cloth and food was served, the Khwaja said:  ‘Ali will not touch the food unless the son of Syed ‘Ata doesn’t come.  The Khwaja said this and remained silent for some time.  All those who were present were thunder-struck waiting for something to happen.  Suddenlythe son of Hadhrat ‘Ata was at the door of the house.  The whole gathering was in an uproar and people were astonished beyond belief.

 

When people asked the boy how he came to be here, he said that he didn’t remember anything apart from the fact that the Mongols were carrying him away and the next moment he found himself at the door of his own house.  Everybody understood that it was due to the spiritual power of the Khwaja.  Everybody fell at his feet and became his disciple.

 

        The Khwaja had 2 sons.  The elder was Khwaja Muhammad and the younger Khwaja Ibrahim (May Allah shower His mercy on them).  In his last moments, the Khwaja made his younger son his successor.  The disciples got the thought as to why the younger son is being made the successor in spite of the elder son being a scholar and a Gnostic.

 

The Khwaja learned of this and said:  Khwaja Muhammad (May Allah shower His mercy on him) will not remain alive for long after me.  Thus, Khwaja Muhammad (May Allah shower His mercy on him) passed away 19 days after the demise of Khwaja ‘Azeezaan ‘Ali Ramiyatni.

 

[Excerpted from Tareekh Mashaikh Naqshband]