Hazrat Achay Mian

Qudwat al-Kaamileen, Abu al-Fazl Hazrat Sayyid Shah Aal-e-Ahmed Ache Miyan is the thirty sixth Imam & Shaykh of the Silsila Aaliyah Qaadiriyah Barakaatiyah Razviyah Nooriyah.

BIRTH:
He was born on the 28th of Ramadan al-Mubaarak 1160 Hijri.

NAME:
His name is Sayyid Aal-e-Ahmed & his title is Ache Miyan. His father was has Hazrat Sayyid Shah Hamza.

PREDICTION OF HIS BIRTH:
Hazrat Saahib al-Barkaat Shah Barkatullah said that he would be blessed with a son (descendant) in the fourth generation, who will strengthen the brightness of the Khandaan. He also gave a cloak to his eldest son, Hazrat Sayyiduna Shah Aale Muhammad to pass it over to the child. When the Bismillah Khwaani of Hazrat Ache Mian was taking place, Hazrat Shah Aale Muhammad, seated him down on his lap & said "This is the child concerning whom my father foretold."

EDUCATION:
He attained his education under the watchful eye of his father & also studied tibb (medicine) under the tutorship of Kaleem Nasrullah Saahib Marehrvi.

HIS EXCELLENCE:
He was a very powerful Aarif Billah. There was no example to him in Karamaat & knowledge in his time. He was well known for his Mujahida & wazaaif. He personally took care of his disciples & was an excellent example of the character of the Prophet. He showed love to all his disciples, but paid special attention to those who came from Badayoun Shareef. He would often say, "Badayoun is our property which was given to us by Huzoor Ghaus-e-Azam."

Once, a person went to the Naqeeb-ul-Ashraaf of Iraq & asked a question relating to the oneness of Allah. He asked him to travel to India & ask his question to Hazrat Shaykh Abdul Aziz Muhaddis-e-Dehlvi. The man travelled to India & met Hazrat Muhaddis-e-Dehlvi. Hazrat answered his query but he was still not fully satisfied. Hazrat Shaykh Muhaddis-e-Dehlvi then said that he should travel to Marehrah Shareef & meet with Hazrat Ache Mian, as he would get the most satisfying answer from him. Hazrat spent most of his time in Ibaadat. With the exception of his five daily 74 Salaah, he always performed Salaat-ul-Maaqoos & many other wazeefas & amals. He had a special pattern in his daily life. He would wake up in the third portion of the night, make fresh wudhu & then perform his Tahajjud Salaah. He then raised his hands & made dua for prosperity in Deen & for the maghfirat of those close to him. After this, he would read the Kalima Shareef aloud eleven times. The door of the house would then be closed & none would be allowed to enter. He would go into his room for a while & then enter the Khanqah Shareef. He would then sit in the company of the dervishes & fulfill their needs & as a manner of encouragement, he would revise some of their wazaaif. He would then enter the Dargah Shareef & first make Fatiha at the Mazaar of his father. He would then make Fateha at the Mazaar of his beloved mother & all his other forefathers. He would go into the garden, which was adjacent to the Dargah. He would lay a carpet & sit under a fruit tree. After a while, he would then go into the Khanqah again. This was the open court, where everyone was allowed to present his or her problems & difficulties before him. He trained his disciples with firmness. He very seldom gave wazifas & amals to ordinary people. Like his predecessors, he assisted those who needed financial assistance etc, very discreetly. He ate two or three thin rotis with some gravy or moong dhall for lunch. He would then rest for a while (Qailullah). He would then make fresh wudhu & pray his Zohar Salaah. He would then become engrossed in the recitation of the Holy Quran. He would then go to the Khanqah & read the wazifa of Duroods. He would then pray Asar Namaaz at the Masjid & return to the Khanqah. He would go into the Musjid for Maghrib Salaah & then pray the Khatm-e-Khajigaan after Maghrib & then return to the Khanqah. He would then sit a while with his Khaadims who showed great respect & honour to him. He would then pray his Isha Salaah & the doors would be closed.

BOOKS & TREATIES:
One of the most famous books written by Hazrat Ache Mian is a book called Aa'in-e-Ahmadi, another book was compilation of wazeefas & special amals. He also wrote the famous Adaab-us-Saalikeen & the Diwan Ash'aar.

HIS KARAAMATS:
Janaab Shaykh Rasool Bakhsh says that once a soldier came to meet Hazrat. He suffered from leprosy & thus stood very far away from Hazrat. Hazrat saw him & called him closer. He said that he was not worthy of coming too close. Hazrat again asked him to come closer.

When he came close to Hazrat, Hazrat placed his hand over the area that was affected with white patches & said, "There is nothing here" When the man looked, he found that there was no sign of the illness."

It is in Asaar-e-Ahmadi that a person from Bukhara came to Marehrah Shareef. He performed Zohar Namaaz att he Khanqah & then presented himself before Hazrat Ache Mian. He said, "I heard your name & came here to gain spiritual excellence, as I do not have the ability to make Mujahida etc. I wish to attain this without any striving & just through your blessed sight." Hazrat smiled at him & said, "You wish to attain such a huge valuable & yet you do not wish to go through any strenuous exercise?"

One person from amongst those seated in the gathering mocked the man & said, "Do you think that it is some type of sweet, that it can just be put into your mouth?"

On hearing this, Hazrat said, "Do not say such a thing. Nothing is far from the Power of Allah." Hazrat then gave him a Durood Shareef & asked him to read it. That night he read the Durood Shareef & was blessed with seeing the Prophet in his dream. The man's entire life changed in a few moments. The mystical secrets dawned upon him & he entered the world of Tasawwuf. In the morning, he went to Hazrat Ache Mian & said, "Last night, the Prophet said to me, "after every century, there will be such a person in my Ummah, who will revive my Deen." He said, "Huzoor! In this Century, you are that personality."

Molvi Riyaazuddin Sahawani, the Khalifa of Hazrat Ache Mian writes as follows in Gulshan-e-Abraar: A villager came to Hazrat & became mureed. After becoming mureed, he did not get the opportunity of coming to the Khanqah for a very long time. One year, he managed to present himself at the Khanqah for the Urs of Hazrat Sayyid Hamza. The Khanqah was filled with thousands of devotees & disciples. The man thought that Hazrat had thousands of mureeds & new groups of people become his mureed on a daily basis. He thus thought that it was not going to be possible for Hazrat to recognize him. After a while, he managed to reach Hazrat Ache Mian & presented his salaam to him & spoke a few words. Hazrat then pointed him out & called him close. He asked about him & about his village. Hazrat then said, "You take the flock of your fellow villagers with you when you go to graze your own flock. How do you recognize your own flock from those of the others?" He answered by explaining the method that is used to differentiate the flocks. Hazrat then said, "Mia! This Faqeer also recognizes his flock in the same way. There is a (spiritual) string of love that is around their necks." Hazrat had a small trunk, which was called Ghala-e-Ghausiyah. He kept his money in this small trunk. He distributed money to the needy, took care of the Khaadims & financed the entire Khanqah, but there was never a shortage in this trunk. This too was a Karaamat of Hazrat Ache Mian.

HIS CHILDREN:
Hazrat married Fazal Faatima, the daughter of Sayyid Ghulam Ali Salharwi Bilgiraami. He was blessed with a son & a daughter. His daughter passed away on the 11th of Rabi-ul-Awwal 1196 Hijri & his son Hazrat Saa'in Saahib passed away just a few days after his bismillah khwaani due to fever, on the 13th of Rabi-ul-Awwal 1196 Hijri.

HIS KHULAFA:
The actual number of his mureeds is not known, but many have said that Hazrat had approximately two hundred thousand mureeds. Hazrat's Khulafa were all very great personalities. Some of the names of his Khulafa are as follows:
  • Hazrat Sayyid Shah Aale Rasool Marehrvi,
  • Hazrat Peer Baghdad Saahib (descendant of Ghaus-e-Azam radi Allahu anhu),
  • Hazrat Shah Khairaat Ali (grandson of Hazrat Shah Fazlullah Kalpvi),
  • Hazrat Maulana Abdul Majeed Ain-ul-Haq Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Abdul Majeed Usmani Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Haafiz Sayyid Ghulam Ali Shahjaanpuri,
  • Hazrat Molvi Riyaazuddin Sahsawani,
  • Hazrat Maulana Fakhruddin Usmani Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Zikrullah Shah Saahib,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Ahmed Shah Shahjahanpuri,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Shah Meeran Barelvi,
  • Hazrat Ghulam Jilani Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Abul Hassan Usmani Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Habibullah Saahib Abbasi Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Baha-ul-Haq Abbasi Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Sayyid Muhammad Ali Saahib Ghulam Darvesh Lucknowi,
  • Hazrat Maulana Fazl Imam Rai Barelvi,
  • Hazrat Shah Muhammad Ghulaam Ghaus Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Shah Gul,
  • Hazrat Mian Habibullah Shah Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Nizaamuddin Saahib Abbasi Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Mia Shah A'lam,
  • Hazrat Maulana Shah Salaamatullah Badayouni Kanpuri,
  • Hazrat Mian Shah Hassan,
  • Hazrat Shah Hussain Mughl,
  • Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Afzal Siddiqui Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Maulana Ghulam Abbas Bardwaani,
  • Hazrat Khwaja Kilan Qaazi Suroonj,
  • Hazrat Allama Muhammad Azam Sahsawani,
  • Hazrat Haafiz Muraad Shah,
  • Hazrat Maulana Noor Muhammad,
  • Hazrat Shah Ghulam Qaadir,
  • Hazrat Shah Shahabuddin Mast,
  • Hazrat Chaudri Niyaz Ali Marehrvi,
  • Hazrat Maulana Badruddin Bukhari,
  • Hazrat Maulana Shaykh Ahmed Dehlvi,
  • Hazrat Maulana Abdul Jabaar Shahjahananpuri,
  • Hazrat Maulana Abdul Qaadir Daghistani,
  • Hazrat Shah Be Fikr,
  • Hazrat Khwaja Ghulam Naqshbandi Khan Dehlvi,
  • Hazrat Mian Ji Abdul Malik Ansari Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Qaazi Zaheeruddin Siddiqui Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Qudrat Ali Shahjahanpuri,
  • Hazrat Shah Najf Ali Shah,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Munawwar Ali Shah,
  • Hazrat Haafiz Muhammad Mahfood Aanola,
  • Hazrat Maulana Abdul Ulaa Farshori Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Shah Illah Yaar,
  • Hazrat Mian Jee Shahabuddin,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Shah Fazl Ghaus Barelvi,
  • Hazrat Hafiz Murad Shah Punjabi,
  • Hazrat Deendaar Shah Rampuri,
  • Hazrat Shah Abdul Haq Shahjanpuri,
  • Hazrat Maulana Ibaadatullah Siddiqui,
  • Hazrat Ne'matullah Shah,
  • Hazrat Luft Ali Shah,
  • Hazrat Shaykh Baarikullah Siddiqui,
  • Hazrat Shaykh Ashraf Ali Ansari,
  • Hazrat Munshi Zulfiqaaruddin Badayouni,
  • Hazrat Shaykh Mubaaziruddin,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Rif'at Ali Shah,
  • Hazrat Maulana Qaazi Abdus Salaam Abbasi,
  • Hazrat Qaazi Imam Bakhsh Siddiqui,
  • Hazrat Mian Abdullah Shah Sahraa'ee,
  • Hazrat IsA'lat Khan,
  • Hazrat Sayyid Mahmood Makki,
  • Hazrat Jalaaluddin Purbi,
  • Hazrat Maulana Naseeruddin Usmani Badayouni
  • & Hazrat Shah Khaamoosh (Ridwaanullahi Ta'ala Alaihim Ajma'een).

GEMS OF WISDOM:
  • Try only to desire the closeness of Allah. If you have attained closeness to Allah, then you have attained everything.
  • Always show respect from your heart, to those, who have a link to the Prophet, such as the Sayyids, Masha’ikh, Auliyah & the Ulama.
  • Know that your Peer-o-Murshid is the most exalted for you compared to all the other Shaykhs in the world. Always follow his commands, for they are the commands of the Prophet & never look at any of his actions or sayings with contempt.
  • Try to eat less & sleep less, as there is great benefit in this.

WISAAL:
He passed away on a Thursday, the 17th of Rabi al-Awwal 1235 Hijri, at the age of 75.

MAZAAR SHAREEF:
His Mazaar Shareef is Marehrah Shareef. (India)

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Extracted from
Tazkira Mashaikh-e-Qadiriyah Barakatiya Rizviyah
Urdu: Maulana Abdul Mujtaba Rizvi | English: Maulana Aftab Qasim

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