TRUTH IS ALWAYS BITTER............................. FOOLS ARE EVERYWHERE BUT WE HINDUS HAVE ENOUGH OF THEM ! HOW AND WHY MAZAAR(TOMB) OF A MUSLIM FAQIR PIR SHIRDI SAIBABA WAS CONVERTED INTO A HINDU SAMADHI ?-SATYAMITRA SAIBABA CULT is not a religion but a form of business. Its CEOs makes money by encashing blind beliefs of its customers. In the year 1838, a Phakeer (Muslim priest) lands in Shirdi. For want of any other name the local goldsmith calls him Saibaba. Shirdi was a small village consisting of dilapidated houses. Villagers had great fun to see such a stranger in their village. Most of them were farmers. Nowadays the farming has been set aside and everyone is engaged in only one industry…. Sai baba industry! Sai is business for this town. At Saibaba death, there was a disagreement amongst his followers about burial procedures. The Muslim minority are reported to have included the category of theologians known asMaulvis and Maulanas. An air of dignity would thus have attended the argument. The Muslims wanted Sai Baba to be permitting the new tomb to resemble a dargah, and making Abdul Baba the custodian of the shrine. These details indicate that the Muslim identity of the Pir saint was still clearly recognised by the Hindu majority. Abdul Baba continued to reside in the Sansthan area and like earlier days, continued to sweep the Masjid, place Chaddar and flowers on the MAZAAR(TOMB) etc. He also kept up his practice of reciting Quran. He did not accept any money and took only clothes and food. After a few years however, Abdul was denied his role as tomb custodian in 1922. A prominent Hindu devotee, Hari Sitaram Dixit, overruled the authority of Abdul by setting up a Public Trust through the Ahmednagar District court, with the intention of administering the tomb. Abdul was persuaded by sympathisers to challenge the court ruling and to file a counter-suit declaring that he was the legal heir to Sai Baba and that the Public Trust was illegal. Abdul lost his case, and had to leave the room reserved for him at the shrine. The severe restrictions wererelaxed at a later date, but the Muslim claim to dominance was permanently eliminated. The new official Sansthan (Trust) was exclusively composed of Hindu members. The tomb became known as the Samadhi Mandir. In 1952, a new and controversial development occurred in the tomb presentation. A marble statue of Sai Baba was installed on a silver throne. Above the statue was placed a painted sign which identified Sai Baba with the Hindu god (or avatar) Rama (Ram). This innovation caused offence to Muslims, and fakirs are reported to have stopped visiting the tomb. The confirmation of Sai Baba’s Sufi status is the discovery and translation of Sai Baba’s faqir servant Adbul’s notebook, written in Urdu. The document contains Abdul’s actual notes and jottings taken while reading the Quran with Sai Baba. From this, it is now possible to state authoritatively that Sai Baba a Sufi Master, and directly taught the precepts of Islam and Sufism to his servant/pupil and probably to a host of wandering faqirs throughout the Deccan in the nineteenth century.
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