Marriage Procession That Drowned

Once Sayyīdunā Ghauš-ul-A’ẓam عَلَیۡهِ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ الۡاَ کۡرَم was walking along the riverbank where he saw an old woman weeping. One of his disciples informed him that that the woman had an only child. She had just got him married, but while the marriage procession was returning home, the boat tipped over and sank drowning the bride and the groom with it. Although it has been 12 years today since that incident occurred, her misery has not reduced, she comes to this river everyday and weeps on not finding that procession.

Sayyīdunā Ghauš-ul-A’ẓam عَلَیۡهِ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ الۡاَ کۡرَم felt sympathetic towards that woman and raised his hands in the court of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, a few moments passed but nothing occurred. Feeling some concern, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه asked, ‘O Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ why is there delay?’ It was said, ‘O my loved one! This delay is not against destiny and fate, if we had desired, the earth and the sky would have been created with a single order, but due to wisdom they were created in six days. It has been 12 years since the procession drowned, the boat and the passengers are both non-existent, the sea creatures have eaten the flesh of the humans; the constituents of the bodies have been collected and put into the bodies and now it is time for their arrival.’

Those words had not yet been concluded when all of a sudden the boat appeared with all of its features, the bride, the groom and the rest of the wedding procession all soon sailed to the riverbank. All the passengers of the boat went home happily after taking well-wishes from Sayyīdunā Ghauš-ul-A’ẓam عَلَیۡهِ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ الۡاَ کۡرَم. On hearing the marvel a large number of non-believers embraced Islam on the blessed hands of Sayyīdunā Ghauš-ul-A’ẓam عَلَیۡهِ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ الۡاَ کۡرَم. 

(Sulṭān-ul-Ażkār fī Manāqib-e-Ghauš-ul-Abrār)

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