Mazar Sharif of Sultan-Ul-Arifeen,Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahu (R.A.) District Jhang, Punjab,Pakistan

Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) was born in 1628 AD in Shorkot which is a city of Pakistan. In his (God bless him) childhood there was a strange light on his face which compelled even Hindu to say Kalima Tayyiba (Shahadah) and enter in Islam His mother supervised his education but it must have been irregular because He was often found under the influence of ecstatic states . It seems that his education remained informal to the end. Whatever He expressed or wrote after-wards, it was in the light of his own spiritual vision and knowledge. His mother taught him the most essential Sufi exercises of Zikar (invocation of Allah and his names) and He probably needed no more guidance after that. He was initiated to walk of Sufis intuitively. In the eyes of Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) the teaching of the Qadria order is most effective for the spiritual development of the seeker. But at the same time it is evidently clear that by Qadria order, He means the one that He himself represented. He names it, Sarwari Qadiri. During the same period when Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) was a young man of about thirty, the war of succession between Dara Shikoh, Aurangzeb was fought. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) later writing are sufficient proof His moral and spiritual support for Aurangzab who won and became the Emperor. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) himself, however, never cares to have any concern with the court or courtiers. All his life, Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) kept travelling to the far-flung places initiating discipline and passing the spiritual knowledge and wisdom to the seeker of the truth. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) might have written most of his books during such journeys. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) never made a permanent Khaneqah (place to live for a Sufi) during his life-time .Sometime, Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) fell in to ecstasy and passed the days and nights in the state of absorption. Many places are still remembered and venerated where Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) stayed for some long or short period to contemplate in solitude. In Manaqiba Sultani (name of a book) a few of Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) journey has been mentioned. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) travelling in Sariki region up to Sindh, Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) journey to Delhi where He met the Emperor Aurngzeb and His visits to the tombs of Multan and other cities have been indicated. The blessed soul of Hazrat Sayyidi-Murshidi, Sheikhul-Masheikh, Maulana-Murshidina, Sutanul-Arifeen Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay), departed in a blissful state to its Lord on a Thursday evening, on the 1st of Jamadu-Thani, in the year 1102 AD/Friday 2 March 1691C.E at the blessed age of 63. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) was place to rest in a brick-built fort. This fort stood on the very land and estate that the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan had conferred to the Saints father in lieu of his services to the state. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) blessed body rested in this shrine for over 70 years. Hazrat Sultan Bahus (Rahmatullahi Alay) blessed body was transferred to nearby place in 1180/1766 because of the water of River Chenub began to increase and cause threat to the structure of the fort and the graves inside. For approximately 150 years, the blessed tomb of Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) illuminated the hearts and minds of the public. However, the River Chenub, once again increased its water level and reached dangerously close to the tomb, this was approximately in the year 1336/1918, during the spiritual reign of Hazrat Sultan Noor Ahmed (Rahmatullahi Alay). Now Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Rahmatullahi Alay) is resting under the beautiful tomb, called the Darbar Hazrat Sultan Bahu in District Jhang, Punjab.