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It was my first visit to Makli since 2008. I had been to Karachi a couple of times after that but never got the chance to visit this vast Necropolis. Thatta was always one of my favorite districts in Sindh and still is. It has some histroical sites such as the Mughal Mosque in Thatta city and Makli as well as huge wetlands such as Haleji and Kheenjar. There are lots of seepage zones and marshes which attracts a wide variety of wildlife too.
The canopied tomb of Mirza Tuhgril Baig is one of the last significant monuments at Makli, dating from the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's era (r. 1658-1707). It was constructed on or about 1680 for Mirza Tughril Baig, a nobleman in Mughal service who rehabilitated the Kalan Kot fort immediately south of present-day Thatta [1]. According to Hasan, the fort was renamed in Tughril Baig's honor as 'Tughralabad,' but the name never took root, and the site is simply known today as 'The Great Fort' (i.e., Kalan Kot). Apart from these scant details, little is known about Mirza Tughril Baig's life or career. However, his name must have fallen into ill-repute in subsequent centuries, as the late-19th, early 20th-century historian Henry Cousens notes that "Small boys have been in the habit of throwing stones at this tomb by way of showing their displeasure at the occupant, and a great heap of stones was recently removed from it" (Cousens, p. 119)
On the other hand, the architects employed a unique structural treatment to support the dome. Around the 5.0 x 5.0 meter platform, twelve columns frame a square enclosure housing the cenotaph. The overhead lintels form an octagon inset within a square, as the diagonals bypass the corner columns [3]. To achieve this, the eight columns supporting the dome have two parallel corbels at right angles and another angling forty-five degrees inward toward the nearest wall. Further overhead, the dome's drum is formed with sixteen low niches topped by intersecting arches [4]. Kamil Khan Mumtaz, the architectural historian, notes that the chevron motif seen here is a reproduction in stone of the tile design used at Diwan Shurfa Khan's mausoleum.
Another point of departure is that the dome is onion shaped, in alignment with contemporary Mughal tastes but at odds with the more classically-shaped domes of neighboring tombs. The dome undecorated apart from a rope-like girdle around its waist. The drum is partly obscured by a skirt of merlons extending from the parapet. Below them, the roof extends outward at a shallow angle, forming a narrow overhang that partially protects the column capitals from direct sunlight and inclement weather.
[4] The intersecting arches over the niches are for decorative purposes only. The actual stones are laid out in an inward-sloping, overlapping pattern of blocks similar to how igloos are built. The upper portion of the dome appears to be a reconstruction as it is built of smaller low-quality bricks of irregular shape.
We give our matters in the hand of Allah. This Ramadhan may Allah help us to emerge out true muslims in the spirit of Islam. Ones who can becomes role models for the world and not shame in our own faces. Amen.
water is an obsession of every child, it is a general observation that kids love to play with water but not all are lucky to have it, even for their basic use, Sansi community is also one of those unlucky ones who have to fetch water from far away. Tayyaba, a born Sansi is enjoying splashes of water who normally faces water scarcity..
عن عبدالله بن عباس رضي الله عنهما أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: ما من أيام العمل الصالح فيها أحب إلى الله من هذه الأيام يعني أيام العشر. قالوا: يا رسول الله ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله قال: ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله إلا رجل خرج بنفسه وماله فلم يَرْجِعْ من ذلك بشيء
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are no days on which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than on these days." (Meaning: the first ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah).
Allahu: Allah Al Qadir, The Omnipotent, Al Muqtadir, The Only One Powerful with complete authority in such changes and progressions which leave the aql, the power to reflect, bewildered because of them and ability and understanding subsides before them.
Ahsanul Khaliqeen: The Best of Creators amongst those who ordain destiny and creation and (He is the Best) in perfecting evolution, creating and moulding even if it was considered that another could create other than Him, though it is impossible for the mind or practice (to consider such a thing).
That is because not the affliction upon them of thirst and not of fatigue and not of hunger in (the) way (of) Allah, and nor do they step any step that angers the disbelievers and they do not inflict on an enemy an infliction except is recorded for them in it (as) a deed righteous.
O one who is on the path of Allah, O worshipper, and after that you reached towards it, (the station of Maqam e Mahmood), there will not be remaining for you a (higher) rank of completion and guidance but instead you are now completed and are the guided one.
When revelations come to you and permission is granted to you by Subhanahu, you will become a perfect Murshid, guide, for the people with shortcomings, incomplete, interceding for them by the Permission of Allah, for their deliverance from the compulsions of imkaan, possibilities, that lead one to the pitfalls of fire and you will make even them reach the atmosphere of heavens with the ability granted by Allah to you and to them.
Bi zikr illah: with the remembrance of Allah, Al Wahid, Al Ahad, Permanent in His Presence without fluctuation and enumeration and doubt. So indeed (this remembrance), causes to leave and disappear from the tablets of their hearts, the engravings of relying (on others) and thinking (of others) in totality.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًۭا كَلِمَةًۭ طَيِّبَةًۭ كَشَجَرَةٍۢ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌۭ وَفَرْعُهَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ ٢٤
تُؤْتِىٓ أُكُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍۭ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهَا ۗ وَيَضْرِبُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْأَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ ٢٥
Wa zakaraallaha katheeran: and he remembers Allah much in all of his ordinary situations and times with satisfaction through Zikr, the remembrance of Subhanahu, until he achieves what is promised to him from the triumph of the honour of meeting Him.
Kana aaminan: it will be safe (for him) from waswasat al ananiya, the whispers of selfishness and ego, and daghdaghatil ghairyiati, the provoking of another, and he will become characterized by the attribute of friendship.
Ghani un an-il alimeen: beyond need of all the worlds. He is not concerned with them and their worship and indeed, they were made to appear and He made it obligatory for them worship and the return towards His Presence and focus towards His Door so they could be steadfast in the rank of worship and become established in it until they become deserving of Friendship and Vice-Regency, which is sprouting secrets of Divine Appearance and Manifestations.
335. The magical Prayer Subhanahu Himself taught His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the one who was the most devoted and his family): Ya Rabbi, forgive me and hide me from my self and have mercy upon me so I become dissolved in You and You are the Best of those who show mercy
Khair ur Raheemeen: are the Best of the Merciful, who are also demands of Your Attributes and reflections of Your Names and everything is with You and from You and there is no one who is Merciful except You and there is no Lord for me other than You.
Then when ordered Subhanahu His Servants for the Hajj, that they come to His House from cities far away from all over the globe and highways distant, fixing for him the specific time from the times which has great excellence and a place near Subhanahu, so He said:
Fi-hinnal hajja: in these months, with the commitment of fulfilling the conditions of it and its pillars regularized for him during these months, its completion is incumbent without disconnection from determination and (without disconnection from) the intention of the heart and (without the disconnection of) the sancitity of the forbidden things in it.
Ayyam al hajj: of Hajj because the Hajj is a symbol of the death of the will which shows the Hayat al Haqeeqia, the real life, and these matters (sexual relations, fighting, the will) are all from the characteristics of living in the natural (day to day) life.
And it cannot be gained (that true life, Al Hayat Al Haqeeqia) except for the Salik, the traveler, An Nasik, the one who sacrifices while performing the ways of worship, who Allah Al Haqq has pulled away from his nafs, self, from rank to rank, progressing his essence (of that Nasik) from realm to realm from the selected realms so that he comes to a rank and a station which enfolds all of the ranks for him and all of the realms become dissolved in him with their secrets and he also becomes dissolved in them.
And there is nothing in it that can make him fall. Instead he became stable and firmly established and contented in this Al Hayat Al Haqeeqia the way we witness such lives, as Mutahassireena, the ones envious, the Mutamanneena, the ones longing for it, when watching the lives of some of the Abdal (the replacements of the Prophets and the Auliya) of the time.
May Allah raise the shadow of such a person upon the parting of the people of Yaqeen, inner certainty and Irfaan, Recognition of Allah. And may his name be unfamiliar so that his glory remains unnoticed. How far is such a rank, its not suitable for us and its not for me that we can even speak about it.
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