Talk:Bu Ali Shah Qalandar
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[edit] Accusation of Vandalism
User:Hello32020 has called my edits as Vandalism and has threatened to block me. Can you two gentlemen look at my edits (which were no more than adding material in view of the discussion). Thank you Hassanfarooqi 15:15, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] General discussion
The above account on Shaikh Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Qalandar Panipati reeks with fantasy and is totally unacceptable historically. He was certainly not a native of Panipat as an embossed epigraph on the right wall on the entrance to his mausoleum reads in Persian and gives his family tree (Shijreh Nasbi) that links his descent from Imam e Aazam Nauman Ibn Saabit (Abu Haneefa) and quotes his birthplace as Ganjeh (in present Azerbaijan). The left wall has a qaseedeh (pangyric) embossed and painted in blue and gold, written by Zahuri Neishabouri who had visited India at Akbar's reign. The mausoleum and the mosque and the enclosure were constructed by Mahabat Khan a Muslim Rajput noble in service of Emperor Nuruddeen Muhammad Jehangir. Mahabat Khan's tomb is in red sandstone and is adjacent to the Shaikh's mausoleum. The reference to the saint's name Bu Ali and the funny anecdote following it ( receiving of Hazarat Ali's scent as a reward for standing for days in water from the Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him and his following! ) is baseless! Islam does not teach such practices as in Hindu Hatha Yoga where yogis practice siddhi by standing in water or standing on their heads for days. Baseless accounts from uneducated storeytellers who mostly became sajjada nasheens at bygone saints' dargahs centuries later, have been invented and passed on to generations of newly converts mostly from illiterate Hindus, to gain credibility and popularity by showing similarities in their uneducated interpretation of Tasawwuf and their followings' forsaken Hindu faith. The epigraph showing his family tree says his kuniyyat (nom de salute) is Abu Ali meaning Ali's father and referring to Abu Talib Ibn Abdul Muttalib. He was a qalandar (Turkish word meaning nomadic people trading in animals like goats and sheep ) by birth and a descendant of the school of Khwaja Bahauddeen Herati a qalandar saint of the Silsila Haideria. Another notable name from this silsila of qalandars whose peculiarity laid in keeping their eyebrows shaved along with mustaches and carrying a sharp razor always along, is Shaikh Abu Bakar Tusi Haideri who had visited Delhi in the reign of Sultan Jalaluddeen Feroze Khalji and whose mureeds accompanying him, at the behest and in the presence of the Sultan, had cruelly put to death another Shia Sufi of Delhi, Sayyadi Maula (Tareekh Ferozeshahi-Ziauddeen Barni). Shaikh Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Qalandar was a contemporary of Shaikh Nizamuddeen Auliya of Delhi and a close friend of Khwaja Rukunuddeen Thanesari. He had the habit of wandering alone in the dense jungles near today's city of Panipat and his body had been found lying 4-5 days after death by wood-cutters who had brought it back to Panipat and had him buried. He certainly did not disappear in thin air as the above citing reads. Refer to Badayuni's Muntakhab ut Tawaareekh for the verse in Farsi giving the year of death. The grave of the renowned Urdu poet Shamsul Ulama Maulana Haali Panipati a pupil of Ghalib and Hakeem Momin Khan Momin, lies at the left of the entrance to the complex.
Sources:- 1)Muntakhab-ut-Tawaareekh. Mulla Abdul Qadir Badayuni. English translation by John William Greers. The Royal Asiatic Society Calcutta. India. 2)Epigraphia Indo-Islamica.Vol XIII.Archaeological Survey of India. Sir Ghulam Yazdani (Director General ASI).Institute of Archaeology, New delhi.India. 3)Aab-e-kausar. Dr.Shaikh Muhammad Ikram. Shaikh Ghulam Ali & Sons. Lahore. Pakistan. 4)Akhbaar-Ul-Akhiyaar. Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi.( Urdu translation by Professor Ghulam Rasool Mehr). Maktaba Usmania. Hyderabad.A.P. India. 5)Tareekh-e-Ferozeshahi. Ziauddeen Barni. The Royal Asiatic Society. Calcutta. India. Lutfullah 14:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)Lutfullah
[edit] Points need transferring to article page
Lutfullah, it seems that you have gathered a lot of genuine information on this historical personage. Would you be able to transfer it into the article itself, especially the points that come from the sources that you have listed? If you do not have much experience of Wikipedia editing I, or other more experienced editors, will be able to help you. You could leave a message on my talk page user talk:itsmejudith if you need that help. Itsmejudith 18:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Can we find ISBNs for sources?
The books cited by Lutfullah all appear to be scholarly histories and highly appropriate for the article. However, there is potential confusion about which edition is being used. If you read this, Lutfullah, do you have citations that are quite readily available and especially do you have ISBNs. Thanks. Itsmejudith 20:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Madam! The primary sources of information abnegating the article are the very epigraphs on either walls of the door leading to the Shaikh's mausoleum. They are not books but their excellent writing material has withstood both time's ravages and the very poor conservation of the complex since it's construction by Mahabat Khan Circa 1585, by the local authorities. This either needs a visit to the shrine or maybe a photograph (if at all taken) can be obtained by request to the Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi India or Haryana State Tourism Department, Chandigarh India. If you wish I can photograph these using a macro 85mm lens and send you prints.
The books barring Epigraphia Indo-Islamica, Vol.13 and Aab-e-Kausar by Late Shaikh Muhammad Ikram PhD.,were read by me at Aligarh Muslim University Library, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library Patna and Usmania University Library Hyderabad in India some twenty odd years ago while compiling my doctoral thesis and were very old publications even then, perhaps not having ISBN listing at all.
You can get reference on Epigraphia.... from Institute of Archaeology New Delhi and reference from any leading bookshop/library of Pakistan on Aab-e-Kausar by Dr.Shaikh Muhammad Ikram.
On Abdul Qadir Badayuni's Muntakhab-ut-Tawaareekh, Ziauddeen Barni's Tareekh-e-Ferozeshahi, and Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis Delhlavi's Akhbaar-ul-Akhyaar, reference can be sought from The India Office Library London UK and the museums/libraries of UK where probably manuscripts too can be traced out of these centuries old renowned chronicles. Thanks.Lutfullah 21:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Lutfullah
