Dargah of Hazrat Shah Jalal Yameny (RA)


Shah Jalal

Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) has got trips and travels and visited numerous buzurgs of high caliber in Yemen, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, the then Jajiratul Arab and also Bangladesh where he travel most of the deep region of the country through his typical life. Hazrat Shah Jalal visited the places Makkah, Madina, Baghdad, Nishapur, Multan, Garju, Samarkhand and Bukhara. In India he visited Badaun, Delhi, Ajmer more then ones these were hallowing attraction for cult and culture. According to historian ‘Minhaj’ as has narrated in his ‘Tabakat-e-Nasiri’ Hazrat Shah Jalal traveled the regions of greater Bangla during the reign of Sultanat, the Sultan of Multan Nasiruddin Kubacha and the Sultan of Delhi, Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish even though Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) then the nearest disciple of worldly famous auliya Hazrat Sheikh Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (RA). As and when Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) intended to come to Delhi, no sooner had the news reached the ear of the Sultan he arranged in full to accord worm welcome the comer Sheikh Jalaluddin (RA) in a befitting manner. It is relevant to say that Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish worth devoted disciple of Sheikh Hazrat Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (RA). Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish along with his companions rushed out the capital Delhi & reached the spot where state and royal guest Shah Jalal (RA) would arrive at. The whole roads and highways were full of crowd with the colourful manifestation of the state minds to have a look to the spiritual royal guest. At an expected appearance of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) Sultan Iltutmish descended his horse as quick as possible to pay a salutary mark to Hazrat Shah Jalal and afterwards he was brought to royal palace in the capital Delhi. Nazmuddin Sugra, Shaikhul Islam designate of the regime of Sultan Iltutmish became much more jealous having seen the unprecedented reception of Sheikh Shah Jalal (RA). Nazmuddin Sugra made a cob-web of conspiracy in his mind to test the ‘Sufism’ of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) and arranged the stayal of the state guest in a house publicly known as ‘Baitujjinn’ which was for long period time used by Jinns as a abandoned house.At the sinister proposal of dominant Sugra the Sultan fell in what to do position. In that mean time Hazrat Sheikh Shah Jalal (RA) himself wanted the key of Baitujjinn and gave it to his disciple (Mureed) saint Abu Turab (whose majar is in Sylhet) and asked to make a clarion call to the Jinn’s inhabitant so as to quitthe house immediately because of Hazrat Sheikh Jalaluddin Tabrizi (RA) would now stay onward inspite of their long stay and hung upward the Hamael Sharif (small size of Quranul Karim) of Hazrat Sheikh Jalal and works done accordingly. As well as Jinns did let of the house.