A GREAT MOSLEM SAINT OF EMPEROR HUMAYUN'S TIME

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A GREAT MOSLEM SAINT OF EMPEROR HUMAYUN’S TIME

Mr. Kolhatkar reports a very interesting fact in his book on Sai Baba.

One day Sai said, "Long ago, I worked, ate and slept in the house of a good

brahmin at Paithan. Only Allah knows where he is. I was there even 1,000 years

earlier! Once I lived happily at Prayag. I was old and used to smoke. One day,

a brahmin with a veena in his hand, came to me and told me that a brahmin

celebate named Mukund was practising austerities and said, "Tell him to be

patient and that his tapas will soon bear fruit." When I went to his retreat,

Mukund and his disciples grew wild and said, "A Moslem like you should not step

in here. We’ll immolate ourselves in protest and the sin will light on

you!Do as you like, Allah Malik!" I said and left. At the market place, I

saw a young Royal couple, evidently in exile, with three attendants. They were

begging for water to drink. I gave them water from my kamandala. The princess

drank it and sought my blessing. I blessed them and said, "Go to Amarkote.

You’ll have a son who’ll become a king. I too shall go there!" So

they left. After wandering a little, I too reached there and leaned of the

birth of a son named Jalaluddin Muhammad to the prince. He is the famous

Akbar." Obviously, Sai identified himself with a Moslem saint of the Mughal

period. Mughal historian Billigrami’s chronicle does contain facts

corroborating Sai’s story

(Written by: Pujya Acharya E. Bharadwaja in Sai Baba the Master)