Pir’s body exhumed 19-years after death
GUJRANWALA:
The body of a man who had died 19 years ago on June 25, 1991, and was buried at Gujranwala was relocated to a village near Daska on July 12 after he appeared in one of his devotees’ dream and appeared to wish that.
“We had buried him in Kabaristan Kalaa at Noshera Road promising that whenever he ordered us we’ll relocate him to Langiawalla village in Daska,” Moinuddin, second son of Shaikh Khalilur Rahman, a pir, told The Express Tribune.
Moin, now a pir himself, resides in the same house where his father spent his entire life, in the Baghbanpura area of Gujranwala. He said that his father’s devotees continued visiting the place to express their gratitude and gain spiritual guidance. “I am taking my father’s mission forward,” he added.
About the devotee who saw the late pir sahib in her dreams, Moinuddin said that she was a student in Class 10. He said that he could not disclose her identity. However, he added that she had been visiting him along with her family.
Rahman appeared in the girls’ dream some two-and-a-half months ago and directed her that the “time had arrived for his body to be transported to the graveyard in the Daska village”.
The girl’s family related the dream to Moinuddin who consulted his brothers and it was agreed that the relocation be carried out on July 12. The body was dug out in the afternoon after receiving permission from the special magistrate, Abdul Sattar.
A crowd of about 200 to 250 people, some of them Rahman’s devotees and others who had gathered to have a glance at the Pir’s face, attended the exhumation and re-burial.
The family, however, refused to expose the face to anyone. They claimed that the body was intact. Some of the people disappointed by the decision speculated, however, that the body was covered because it was not in good shape.
Special Branch of police have started investigations after some of the people in the neighbourhood started contemplating that the exhumed body was not that of the pir.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2010.
The body of a man who had died 19 years ago on June 25, 1991, and was buried at Gujranwala was relocated to a village near Daska on July 12 after he appeared in one of his devotees’ dream and appeared to wish that.
“We had buried him in Kabaristan Kalaa at Noshera Road promising that whenever he ordered us we’ll relocate him to Langiawalla village in Daska,” Moinuddin, second son of Shaikh Khalilur Rahman, a pir, told The Express Tribune.
Moin, now a pir himself, resides in the same house where his father spent his entire life, in the Baghbanpura area of Gujranwala. He said that his father’s devotees continued visiting the place to express their gratitude and gain spiritual guidance. “I am taking my father’s mission forward,” he added.
About the devotee who saw the late pir sahib in her dreams, Moinuddin said that she was a student in Class 10. He said that he could not disclose her identity. However, he added that she had been visiting him along with her family.
Rahman appeared in the girls’ dream some two-and-a-half months ago and directed her that the “time had arrived for his body to be transported to the graveyard in the Daska village”.
The girl’s family related the dream to Moinuddin who consulted his brothers and it was agreed that the relocation be carried out on July 12. The body was dug out in the afternoon after receiving permission from the special magistrate, Abdul Sattar.
A crowd of about 200 to 250 people, some of them Rahman’s devotees and others who had gathered to have a glance at the Pir’s face, attended the exhumation and re-burial.
The family, however, refused to expose the face to anyone. They claimed that the body was intact. Some of the people disappointed by the decision speculated, however, that the body was covered because it was not in good shape.
Special Branch of police have started investigations after some of the people in the neighbourhood started contemplating that the exhumed body was not that of the pir.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2010.