DIVINE GRACE TO DEVOTEES - Niruddin & Abdul Khader

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DIVINE GRACE TO DEVOTEES – NIRUDDIN & ABDUL KHADER

 

The experience of a few other people with Baba, are still

interesting, though they have no particular moral bearing, and are

recited by Chote Khan to show Baba's Antarjnana and helpfulness. He

mentions the following about a Risaldar, a regiment horse soldier by

the name Nuruddin. He came to Baba one day and wanted leave to go

back. Baba did not give him leave. Baba said, `Go to-morrow'. But

Nuruddin and rest of the regiment were marching on and so he could

not stay. Then Baba gave him udhi and spoke in Urdu words which

meant, `Dig a pit and eat the udhi'. The man took the udhi and rode

away. At Kopergaon he saw a corpse being carried, and then in due

course he reached his destination. from that time, he had always a

vision of the corpse before his eyes. On the days, when he had such a

vision, he got food and was happy. On other days, try as he might, he

could not get food. This mortified him and he gave up service in

disgust. Thinking that Baba was responsible for this, he came back to

Baba and stayed at Shirdi for six months. Then this curse left him.

Taking leave of Baba, he then went away. he became a happy grocery

shopkeeper at Deolali. Another case of Baba's influence mentioned by

Chote Khan is that of one Abdul Khader.

 

Abdul Khader came to Baba in about 1915, and he was at the takia.

Baba passed that side. Khader then begged Baba, `Give me Fakir, I

want to become a saint.' Baba then stood in front of him and with

folded palm, flung the palm at him as though he was flinging

something at him. But nothing visible was thrown. after that Khader's

manner and talk were changed. He began to give moral advice and

behave like Baba, sometimes picking up a stone and threatening to

throw it. Sometimes, he got unmanageable. For a month and a half this

went on. he was a mad Fakir. Thereafter, Khader's relations began to

get disgusted with Khader's condition. And one day Baba stood before

Khader at the mandap of the Mosque and drew his folded palm from

Khader's side to himself, as though he was pulling back something,

and said, `Lav Bale Ither'. Then Khader got back his original state

of mind, and stayed on for 15 days more. Getting Baba's permission he

went to Kirkee and started a bidi business, and was flourishing.

 

(Imam Bhai Chote Khan, aged about 65 years and resident of Vajapur,

Aurangabad district, told to His Holiness Pujyasri B V Narasimha

Swamiji)