As someone beautifully said in Urdu "Kisi ko itna pyaar karo ki tumhe Khuda mil jaye..."
Alhamdulillah.
Reference : Story of "Rabia balkhi and Bektash" in the pdf The Legends of Afghanistan shared above.
Alhamdulillah.
Reference : Story of "Rabia balkhi and Bektash" in the pdf The Legends of Afghanistan shared above.
Ep-70 : Visiting Mazar-e-sharif and Chashma-e-shafa, #LostMaqam
Alhamdulillah i sang the song and i visited Mazar e shareef. The place undoubtedly holds the spiritual connection to Imam Ali a.s but does it really contains the body of Imam Ali a.s as well.
I don't think so. Yes there are some narrations that tells us that his body was brought here secretly but that narration is just too weak. I just couldn't feel the spiritual aura that a burial place should have especially when we are talking about Imam Ali a.s.
Yes undoubtedly it is related to Imam Ali but most probably as a qadamgah and not as a burial place.
Allah knows best.
Alhamdulillah i sang the song and i visited Mazar e shareef. The place undoubtedly holds the spiritual connection to Imam Ali a.s but does it really contains the body of Imam Ali a.s as well.
I don't think so. Yes there are some narrations that tells us that his body was brought here secretly but that narration is just too weak. I just couldn't feel the spiritual aura that a burial place should have especially when we are talking about Imam Ali a.s.
Yes undoubtedly it is related to Imam Ali but most probably as a qadamgah and not as a burial place.
Allah knows best.
Also there is a spring called as chashma e shafaa (Spring of Healing), around 30 kms from the city center of Mazar e Shareef. It is believed that the water hold some magical power of healing your bodily injuries.
The story behind it was covered in the video although i didn't went there as there is no maqam related to any Prophets or Sahaba.
The story behind it was covered in the video although i didn't went there as there is no maqam related to any Prophets or Sahaba.
Ep-71 : Chashma e Hayat or Aab e Hayat (Water of Eternal Life) and another chashma e shafaa (Spring of Healing), and the tomb of another one of masters of Imam Bukhari in Baghlan (Propbably a Tabee or a Taba e tabee) #LostMaqam
Chashma e Hayat : In the videos I have explained that Chashma e Hayat was the third most important maqam that I needed to cover in Afghanistan but as I went to the ministry of Info and Culture to get the permission, they clearly denied me permission to visit any religious shrine in the city.
This is the second time this is happening. Wahhabi cleric forbidding me to go to a shrine that they consider biddat (innovation). First time it happened in Ghazni when they assigned a guide who overlooked your every move. It was really frustrating to sit in one room with a guy who clearly doesn't understand the importance of preserving the history and culture of a province. It's so weird that they gave me permission to visit every historic sites in Samangan but all religious sites were banned.
Alas, I am really sad that I couldn't go there. I have the coordinates of the location of Chashma e hayat but I don't have any pics.
I did however recorded the conversation that i had with that cleric in the ministry and i want to expose this hypocrisy to the world.
Coordinates of the Chashma (not exact but it's somewhere here.)
35.995417, 68.050642
Chashma e Hayat : In the videos I have explained that Chashma e Hayat was the third most important maqam that I needed to cover in Afghanistan but as I went to the ministry of Info and Culture to get the permission, they clearly denied me permission to visit any religious shrine in the city.
This is the second time this is happening. Wahhabi cleric forbidding me to go to a shrine that they consider biddat (innovation). First time it happened in Ghazni when they assigned a guide who overlooked your every move. It was really frustrating to sit in one room with a guy who clearly doesn't understand the importance of preserving the history and culture of a province. It's so weird that they gave me permission to visit every historic sites in Samangan but all religious sites were banned.
Alas, I am really sad that I couldn't go there. I have the coordinates of the location of Chashma e hayat but I don't have any pics.
I did however recorded the conversation that i had with that cleric in the ministry and i want to expose this hypocrisy to the world.
Coordinates of the Chashma (not exact but it's somewhere here.)
35.995417, 68.050642
After exiting samamngan I found another chashma e shafaa (Spring of Healing) in Baghlan province. The story related to this chashma is with an awliya whose ziarat is at the top of a mountain. Didn't went there as i was getting late for kunduz.
On my way to kunduz I found the burial site of yet another masters of hadith, masters of Imam bukhari r.a in Baghlan main city. His name is Hz Qutaybah bin Baghlani r.a and he is either a Tabee or a Taba Tabee (I still have to work on the translation though). He is considered as the Pir of spiritual of whole city people of Baghlan.