Alhamdulillah pada 13-16 Feb.2007 ditakdirkan saya terpaksa terbang ke New Delhi , India untuk hadiri mesyuarat dengan Menteri Luar India Mr.Pranap Murkerji dan Menteri Luar Malaysia Syed Hamid Albar.
Peluang hanya sekali tapi sebab dah lama baca buku Sh.Nizamudin Awliya guru Chisti tersohor dan juga Sh.Waliyullah Dehlavi dan cerita tablighi markas masjid Nizamudin maka dapat juga hamba bertolak dengan teksi Vespa tut-tut dari Taj Palace Hotel kira-kira 15 km ke kota Old Delhi Quaters yang ramai penduduk muslim. Rupanya kota Delhi amat luas dan lapang, terdapat beberapa taman dan berpuluh-puluh bangunan klasik Mughal dan ex-British bertaburan di kota penduduk hampir 5 juta ini. Raja Mughal terakhir Shah Bahadur dibuang negeri ke Ranggoon selepas pemberontakan 100,000 askar Indian Mutiny dan pejuang islam pada 1857 gagal kerana tentera British seramai 20,000 orang memiliki senjata canggih dan moden.
Kami lalu depan Istana dan Makam Humayun selepas itu 300 meter masuk kawasan Nizamuddin , Lorong kecil di Dergah (Makam wali) Nizamudin penuh dengan manusia, pengemis, kambing-kambing bebiri juga lalu sama, penjual bunga dan para pengunjung berdoa serta bersedekah. Oh masjid asal depan makam Nizamudin kecil juga. Berwarna merah, lalu hamba salat sunat, berdoa dan berbisik seraya menyerahkan suatu amanah kepada seorang faqir disudut masjid. Lega dan terus keluar. Sempat berdoa dan baca Fatihah depan makam wali mulia ini yang dulu berjuang dan berdakwah mengislam ramai penduduk india utara zaman Raja Mahmud Ghzani dan keturunan Mughal Timurlane.
Kami akhiri lawatan dengan doa :
Rabbi habli hukman wa alhiqni bis-salihin.
Allahumma aina ala zikrika wa syukrika wa husni ibaditika.
Rabbi adhkhilni mudhkhala sidqin wa akhrijni mukhraja sidqin
waj-alli min ladunka sultanan nasira.
From Merakayangan Fellow Traveller
Salam my reader and friend,
I am back from Delhi and was with the Chisti’s in Nizamudin.
The first two days were spent at Hazrat Nizamudin Auliya’s Chilla.
It was shady and cool there , bright with no sun, surrounded by the sound of birds and tombs of Hazrat Nizamuddin’s followers. The meditation room in the front was locked so we could only peek in.In front of this room was a small alcove that people used for Muslim prayers .
The back of this meditation rooms was in ruins , it used to house Hazrat Nizamudin’s sleeping quarters as well as the stores perhaps that housed the food donations that were received daily. It was Hazrat Nizamudin’s own rules that no food or donation should be kept overnight, all should be distributed the same day that it came. Hazrat Nizamudin left instructions not to repair the place which is probably why it has become ruins over the more than 500 years that have passed.
I had made some notes whenever I could of the 2 day meeting with Pir Zia. It was not under the most conducive of conditions in terms of comfort but in terms of spirituality and in terms of walking in the footsteps of Hazrat Nizamudin Mahboob Illah it was perfect.
We sat on the carpet on the ground in front of the meditation room of Hazrat Nizamudin Auliya. Here are some points I noted down and perhaps we can discuss it and expand it.
Pir Zia began talking about the Breath and also how the Chistiyya also read from the Hindu scriptures and appreciated their divine origin and used the holy scriptures of various traditions to interpret each other .This does not mean they did not read the Quran, this they indeed did and used the Quran to understand the Bhagavadgita and the Upanishads.
The Chisti sufis have always had a dialogue with the Yogis and developed their own systems of breath exercises resulting from this dialogue and inspiration.
There is only ONE message, and there is One guidance which has a role in every single place of Human evolution.It is said in the Quran there are 124,000 prophets and prophetesses send to mankind, some made known and some unknown and all of them brought just One message that was suited to the perspective of the nation and time it was sent.It is that people over time made it seem that each message was exclusive and it lost its universal nature and became restrictive.
These are some points from Pir Zia’s talk we may want to dwell upon:
“There is an unfolding pf the horizon of meaning in the world
The Divine Wish evolves and develops in our own process of unfolding
The Amanah for us :A responsibility to participate consciously and sincerely to open to the future which we cannot know yet.
Our body is the flow of humanity through time
Our bodies are the single cells of one planetary being . The soul has a longer memory before the creation of the body and before the creation of the earth.”
I will elaborate and expand on this in time insya Allah.
Nota:
( Hamba beruntung sebab telah jumpa dan beli buku Sh. Nizamuddin Awliya-Moral of The Hearts di KLCC serta membacanya sebelum melawat New Dehli pada Feb.2007. Ini menambahkan kagum dan kasih kepada usaha dakwah beliau yang disanjung oleh ulama dahulu dan beribu-ribu kaum hindu masuk islam pada zamannya)