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This video is the second video of my Ajmer Ride series,
Hazrat Hasham Peer Dastageer RA is a famous auliya in Bijapur.
In the book Richard Maxwell writes in
Reformers and Writers
Every day a great number of men would come to that Spritual guide [Hashim] declaring that their poverty and unfortunate state had caused them to come to his service in want of relief. He would ask them if they wanted employment as domestic servants. Some said they would work for such-and-such a noble; others said they would work for anybody who would look after their welfare. And he [Hashim Pir] would express his willingness to write them letters of recommendation for em- ployment. And in every possible way he would take their pleas and stories to the king, the wazir, or to whomever was necessary for the task.
Although we do not know what Hashim ra relations with the court had been before this episode, it is clear that they became quite close after it. When Ibrahim II died the following year (1627), Muhammad 'Adil Shah continued the tradition of main- taining close links with the Sufi. Zubairi wrote that both Ibrahim II and Muhammad had a great deal of belief in Hashim's spiritual power and that Muhammad declared him to be superior to all other Sufis of Bijapur, even depending on Hashim RA council on important matters of state." One oft-related tradition that can be traced to Sultan Muhammad's time relates that when Muham- mad fell seriously ill in 1646 Hashim Pir RA gave the sultan ten years of his life in return for the favor extended to the Sufi twenty years earlier by Ibrahim II. Hashim thus died in 1646, and Muhammad in 1656. Whether or not Muhammad 'Adil Shah be- lieved that his life had been prolonged in this way, the sultan's deep attachment to the Sufi is suggested by his having constructed his own huge mausoleum, the famous Gol Gumbad, directly be- hind Hashim Pir's dargah in the extreme eastern end of the city.
What were the reasons for the close contacts between Hashim Pir RA and Muhammad 'Adil Shah? One cause doubtless lies in Ibrahim II's intervention in securing Hashim's release from the Portuguese, an event that to some extent must have ingratiated the Sufi to the court. A more profound cause has its roots in the immense popularity that Hashim RA enjoyed throughout his long life in Bijapur. One of his khalifas wrote that Hashim RA had enlisted 5,500 affiliates into the outer circle of his following at Bijapur." The basis of his popularity was suggested by another of his khalifas.
As written in the book by Richard Maxwell
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