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Penukonda
Penukonda or Penu Konda is a small town in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 70 km away from Anantapur town.-Geography:Penukonda is located at...
, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh. This place is located on NH 7 i.e. Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
- Hyderabad highway and is around 120 Kilometers from Bangalore and 90 Kilometers from Anantapur.
Before coming to Penukonda
Penukonda
Penukonda or Penu Konda is a small town in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 70 km away from Anantapur town.-Geography:Penukonda is located at...
, he was a king of Sistan
Sistan
Sīstān is a border region in eastern Iran , southwestern Afghanistan and northern tip of Southwestern Pakistan .-Etymology:...
and Shahpur in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
. He renounced the world for the sake of Allah and was, his disciples say, a true follower of Islam who then found his Murshid (Spiritual Guide) — that is, Hazarath Tabr-e-Aalam Baadshah Nathar Vali
Tabr-e-Aalam Baadshah Nathar Vali
Hazrat Syedna Sultan Syed Baba-e-Nathar Sarmast Tabl-e-Aalam Dhool Samandar Hussaini Suharwardy is one of great Sufi grand saints of India, who came to Trichy more than 1100 years ago and was the first Sufi to bring Islam to South India & Srilanka.His mausoleum is one of the most potent source...
, who himself was a king who also had renounced the world for the Almighty's cause in a place called Tiruchirapalli
Tiruchirapalli
Tiruchirappalli ) , also called Tiruchi or Trichy , is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli District. It is the fourth largest municipal corporation in Tamil Nadu and also the fourth largest urban agglomeration in the state...
(Tamil Nadu). After serving Hazarath for several years on the latter's command he left for Penukonda in order to preach.
Legend says that he was searching for a place to settle and his Guru gave him a dry twig and said to him wherever this twig will bloom to a big plant stay there. He planted the twig and slept under atree only to awake and saw it become a beautiful plant and he stayed there.
He is called Babaiah by the local people and thousands of man have taken his name over centuries with love and respect to this great saint. We can find lots of Babaiahs if we move around the surrounding villages or for that matter Anantapur district in AP India.
Miracle
One day Baba was preaching a king on how one can live even after his/her death and advocated, person who hardened the body by subjecting to intense religious zeal attains unity with Almighty and the body won’t decay and will be alive till Qayamat (Dooms day).To bring clarity, Baba quoted an example, which is as follows:
- Two pots made of clay, one just dried in sun and the other burnt in a furnace, buried after digging two separate pits in the mud. After few days, when both the pits opened, the burnt pot has well intact its form and shape whereas the pot that was dried but not burnt, has lost its form and turned into clay.
Likewise, when a human burns himself by truthfully following Allah and his Prophets preaching’s he/she shall be alive even in the grave and the body won’t get touched by mud or any insects.
As the king was still doubtful, Baba stated that the king could check for himself, by opening Baba’s grave, for the body being untouched by the mud even after 40 years of Baba leaving the world. The king replied that he is already old and may die even before 40 years. Baba smiled and offered his 40 years of life to the king to verify after 40 years by opening the burial. He also said if he couldn’t wait for 40 years, he could open after 40 days of his burial.
Baba died after few days. On 40th day, king and others dug the burial place of Baba and observed that the body is fresh with a smile on the face.
The king was convinced. However, to substantiate, after 40 years they did it again and found that the Baba's body is still fresh and with full of flowers.
As commanded by Baba, three flowers were taken which were on His chest.
'Hazarath Syedna Baba Hyder Vali of Mulbagal
Baba Hyder Vali of Mulbagal
Hazrath Syed Shah Baba Hyder Auliya Hussaini Suharwardi is a 12th century Sufi saint of Suharwardi order. He was the disciple of Hazrath Tabr-e-Aalam Baadshah Nathar Vali , of Tirchy...
,'is from his spiritual order.