The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was supposedly an enlightened mystic who had imbibed spiritual knowledge of the unseen. He had divined the events of the ghadar (revolt) of 1857 much before the event took place through his spiritual powers but was content to place his trust in the will of God.
I came across this interesting piece of history on pages 7 and 8 of the book 'Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857' (originally in Urdu as Begumat ke Aansoo) written by Khwaja Hasan Nizami and translated by Rana Safvi which I had reviewed on 6th of October, 2023.
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Coming up: Had Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar divined the events of the uprising of 1857?
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I came across this interesting piece of history on pages 7 and 8 of the book 'Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857' (originally in Urdu as Begumat ke Aansoo) written by Khwaja Hasan Nizami and translated by Rana Safvi which I had reviewed on 6th of October, 2023.
The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was supposedly an enlightened mystic who had imbibed spiritual knowledge of the unseen. He had divined the events of the ghadar (revolt) of 1857 much before the event took place through his spiritual powers but was content to place his trust in the will of God.
Thus, when Hazrat Shah Allah Baksh Chishti Sulaimani Tonsvi came to Delhi for the first time, Bahadur Shah invited him to the (Lal) Qila (i.e. the Red Fort). After the meal was over, the emperor excused everyone and when he was left alone with Hazrat sahib he asked him about the hidden [divinely ordained] reason for the tottering conditions of his empire.
Hazrat Tonsvi replied, ‘I think your ancestors have committed some grave mistakes of which the gravest is that they have put up a barrier between the lover and the beloved.’ Or, to put it in words, Emperor Mohammed Shah had been buried between the shrines of Hazrat Mehboob-e Ilahi and Hazrat Amir Khusrau.
The extreme love between Hazrat Mehboob-e Ilahi and Hazrat Amir Khusrau dictated that no one should come between their shrines. For Hazrat Mehboob-e Ilahi had said that had it not been forbidden by the Sharia they would have been buried in the same grave. In such a case it was completely wrong for Mohammed Shah to be buried in between and that was the cause of the destruction being faced by the empire.
These words of Hazrat Tonsvi had a profound effect on Bahadur Shah Zafar who believed them with all his heart.
Thus, he knew through manifest and latent means that the decline of the (Mughal) empire was imminent and he would repeatedly express this through his private conversations.
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