Hazrat Amir Khusrou R.A and Hazrat Bu Ali Qalandar R.A One day Amir Khusrou requested his shaikh’s permission to visit Hazrat Bu Ali Qalandar in Panipat as he intended to proceed to that town. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya granted the permission. During his visit, Amir Khusrou was asked to recite his poetry. He recited a couplet: The whole city is full of handsome youths, but I am absorbed in my own Beloved; What can I do, my obstinate eyes refuse to look at anyother beloved... This was well appreciated by Hazrat Qalandar who then recited some of his own poetry. After that he concentrated on him spiritually but Amir Khusrou could not bear the intensity of his concentration. Hewas about to swoon away when he felt a hand on his back and heregained his balance. On return to Delhi, he related what had happened, to which Hazrat Mahbub e Ilahi replied, “That hand was mine. I have kept with me what you received there and I shall makeit over to you at a suitable time.” Hazrat then told us, “There was once a pupil of Hazrat Bu Ali called Mubariz Khan who was also treated as Amir Khusrou was treated, but he could not sustain the attention and died as a result. After that it became customary for anyone visiting the mazar of Hazrat Qalandar first to visit the mazar of Mubariz Khan. That is now also the practice for visiting the mazar of Hazrat Mahbub Ilahi; but one has to visit the mazar of Hazrat Amir Khusrou first. Hazrat Mahbub e Ilahi used to say, “When God asks me what I had brought for Him, I should be able to say that I had, forHim, the ‘throbbings of Amir Khusrou’s heart’; thus the secret is that by a prior visit to Amir Khusrou’s mazar one gains the heart’s throbbing to enable him to receive full faizan (beneficence) from Hazrat Mahbub e Ilahi R.A. (From the book Tarbiatul Ushaq The Training of Divine Lovers) ***For more about Sufism click our website link: www.thesufi.com

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