Tarikh Khanwada Hazrat Shah Burhanuddin Muhammad Raz I Ila

SHAIKH BURHANUDDIN RAZ-I-ILAHI

HIS FULL NAME IS SHAIKH BURHAN MUHAMMAD

HE IS POPULARLY KNOWN AS SHAIKH BURHANUDDIN AULIYA AND SHAIKH BURHANUDDIN RAZ-I-ILAHI

HE WAS BORN IN 998 A.H IN BADOD
HE WAS THE MOST DISTINGUISH KHALIFA OF SHAIK ISA

HE CLAIMED DESCENT FROM HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDIQUE RADI ALLAHU ANHU THE FIRST KHALIFA .

HIS MOTHER FATIMA WAS A SAIYED AND CLAIMED HER DESCENT FROM IMAM HUSSAIN THE GRANDSON OF NABIE KARIM SALLALA HU ALIHI WASSALAM

SHAIKH BURHAN\u2019S ANCESTORS LIVED BHARUCH GUJARAT BUT AFTER THE DEATH OF
HIS GRAND FATHER SHAIKH ALI SIDDIQUI SHAIKH BURHAN\u2019S FATHER SHAIKH MIAN
KABIR MUHAMMAD MIGRATED TO PARGANAH BADOOD IN KHANDESH IN THE VILLAGE
RAJHI

WITH HIS UNCLE SHAIKH ILMULLAH A MUHADDITH OF BURHANPUR HE CAME TO BURHANPUR

AFTER COMPLETING HIS STUDY OF EXTERNAL SCIENCE (ULME ZAHIR) HE DESIRE TO BECAME A MURID OF A MYSTIC TEACHER

AT THAT TIME SHAIKH MALIK HUSSAIN BANBANI WAS MOST OUTSTANDING SUFI OF BURHANPUR.

SHAIKH BURHAN VISITED SHAIKH MALIK HUSSAIN BANBANI KHANQAH AND REQUESTED HIM TO GUIDE HIM ON THE MYSTIC PATH.

SHAIKH MALIK HUSSAIN BANBANI ENROLLED HIM IN HIS DISCIPLE.

AFTER SOME TIME SHAIKH MALIK HUSSAIN BANBANI WENT ON A TOUR THEREFORE
SHAIKH BURHAN HAD A NEED OF A SPIRITUAL TEACHER TO COMPLETE HIS
TRAINING.

THEREFORE HE VISITED SHAIKH ABDUL QUDDUS KHALIFA OF
SHAIKH ISA JUNDULLAH AFTERWARDS SHAIKH ABDUL QUDDUS ADVISED SHAIKH
BURHAN TO MEET SHAIKH ISA JUNDALLAH.

THEREFORE HE WENT TO SHAIKH
ISA JUNDALLAH AT THE AGE OF 19 YEARS AND JOINED HIS DISCIPLES AFTER SOME
TIME SHAIKH ISA JUNDALLAH GAVE HIM THE KHILAFAT NAMA OF SHATTARI
SILSILA

ONCE SHAIKH BURHAN REMARKED THAT \u201cHAD I NOT SEEN THE TWO PIOUS SAINTS

( SHAIKH TAHIR AND SHAIKH ISA JUNDALLAH)

I MIGHT HAVE LIVED UNDER THE IMPRESSION OF THAT SAINTS OF MY AGE ARE
MATERIALISTIC IN THEIR ATTITUDE AND ARE DEVOID OF ANY COURAGE .

BUT WHEN I SAW THEM I CAME TO KNOW THAT THE WORLD IS NOT DEVOID OF GENUINE SAINTS.

SHAIKH BURHAN HAD A KHANQAH OR MORE STRICTLY A JAMA'AT KHANA WHICH WAS RUN BY HIS DISCIPLES UNDER HIS SUPERVISION.

THE SHAIKH ENFORCED WITH GREAT SEVERITY THE RULES WHICH HE HAD LAID
DOWN FOR THE INMATES EXCEPT THE FEW WHO WERE PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE TO DO
THEIR WORK.

ALL HAVE TO DO HARD WORK TO EARN THEIR LIVELIHOOD
SOME OF THEM USED TO BROUGHT FIREWOOD FROM THE JUNGLE SOME USED TO SELL
THEM AND SOME USED TO COPY THE BOOKS AND EARN THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

THE SHAIKH NEVER ALLOWED FUTUH UNASKED CHARITY TO BE ACCUMULATED IN HIS KHANQAH.

THE SHAIKH CONSTANTLY EMPHASIZED THE FOLLOWING EIGHT PRINCIPLES ON WHICH HIS SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE WAS BASED:

1. REDUCTION IN THE FOOD
2. REDUCTION IN THE SLEEP
3. REDUCTION IN CONVERSATIONS
4. REDUCTION IN SOCIAL CONTACTS
5. FREQUENT FASTS
6. PIETY IN THOUGHT AND ACTION
7. CONSTANT ENGAGEMENT IN DHIKR
8. KEEPING THE SHAIKH CONSTANTLY IN THE MIND

THE SHAIKH THOUGHT THAT NO SPIRITUAL PROGRESS WAS POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO WERE INSOLENT OR DISRESPECTFUL.

THE SHAIKH WAS KEENLY INTERESTED IN AUDITION AUDITION PARTIES (MEHFIL-E-SAMA)

SHAIKH BURHAN DIED ON SHA'BAN15, 1083 A.H/ 1673 A.D AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY FIVE.

SOME CONSTRUCTION WORK IS DONE BY ALAMGIR ON THE TOMB SHAIKH BURHAN
AND THE CONSTRUCTION WORK WAS COMPLETED BY SEYAD RIYAZ-UDDIN SAHEB SOME
WHAT IN 1940 A.D

ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TOMB OF SHAIKH BURHAN THERE IS A MOSQUE.

THERE IS A LARGE COMPOUND IN WHICH THERE IS TOMB OF SHAIKH BURHAN AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER GRAVES AND WELLS.

BESIDE THE MAZAR OF SHAIKH BURHAN THERE IS A MAZAR OF HIS SON SHAH ABDUL AZIZ AND HE DIED IN 1116AH

INSHALLAH NOW IN OUR FURTHER POST WE WOULD DISCUSS ABOUT disciple of SHAIKH BURHAN bare as follows

IF THERE IS ANY MISTAKE IN INFORMATION ON OUR POST IS DUE TO OUR LIMITED UNDERSTANDING.