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Little about Makhdoom Jalal of Uch Sharif
Uch Sharif is unrivalled for the number of its shrines, and it is said that every inch of the ground is occupied by the grave of a saint. There are two families of Sayyids in Uch Sharif, the bukhari and Jilani. The most celebrated shrine of the bukhari saint is that of the Makhdoom Sher Shah Jalal-u-Din Surkh Posh Bukhari entitled the second Adam. He was born at Bukhara on Monday the first of Ramazan, 595 Hijri. He is also known as Sayyid Jalal or Sher Shah Sayyid Jalal. His history and pedigree are given in extend in such works as the Mazher-i-Jalali, the Akber-ul-Akhyar, the Rauzat-ul-Ahbab, Maraij-ul-Walayat, Manaqabi Qutbi, the Siyar-ul-Aqtar, the Siyar-ul-Arifeen, the Manaqib-ul-Asifya etc. These books only exist in manuscript and are generally found in the position of Bukhari Sayyids. Sayyid Jalal's life is given in brief below:
Having completed his scholar education in his seventh year he performed, even in childhood several miracles. 1,500 learned men had accepted him before he reached manhood as their spiritual guide. HE spent his whole life in traveling and several tribes, such as the Chadhar, Siyal, Dahir and Warren embraced Islam owing to his efforts. HE also met Chengiz Khan, the mongol, and endeavoured to convert him to Islam, but Chengiz Khan ordered him to be burnt alive. The fire however turned into a bunch of flowers and on seeing this miracle Chengiz Khan became a Muslim under the name of Jahangir Khan. The name of his capital was likewise changed to Qubat-ul-islam. Chengiz give his daughter in marriage to the Sayyid, who is called the second Adam becuz he at first refused to take Chengiz's daughter to wife but when he heard a divine voice say that his descendants would spread for and wide and were destined to be Qutbs "saints" of the world, he consented to the marriage. This is no exaggeration as his descendants or exceedingly numerous, and many Sayyid families in the Punjab, Sindh, the united provinces, Kutch and Hydrabad Dakkan, claim decent from him, and trace their origin to Uch Sharrif. He had however, no issue by his wife, Zainab, the daughter of Changiz, but by his second wife, Fatima, the daughter of Sayyid Qasim Hussein Bukhari, he had to sons, Sayyid Ali and Sayyid Jaffar, whose tombs are at Bukhara. He brought the former son, Sayyid Baha-ul-Halim, with him to Sindh. The latter also was a worker of miracles, and his tomb is at Uch. Sayyid Jalal afterwards married Zohra, the daughter of Sayyid Badur-u-Din Bukhari, of whom was born Sayyid Mohammad Ghaus. On Zohra's death he married the second daughter of Sayyid Badur-u-Din, who give birth to Sayyid Ahmed Kabir, the father of Makhdoom Jahania. In 642 Hijri when Nassir-u-Din Mahmud, son's of Shams-u-Din Altamash, was ruler of the kingdom of Delhi, Sayyid Jalal reached Uch, which was then called Deogarh, and its people brgan throw him to embrace islam. The Raja Deo Singh, its ruler, was greatly incensed at this, and spared on efforts to cause him trouble, but being overawed by the Sayyid's miracles he fled Marwar. Innumerable miracles are attributed to him. The reverence which he enjoyed may be judged from the fat that rulers used to wait upon him at Uch, for example in 642 H. Nassir-u-Din Mahmud, the eldest son Shams-u-Din Altamash, paid him visit at Uch. He died in 690 H. in the reign of Ghayas-u-Din Balban, and was buried at Sonak Bela 3 miles of Uch, but the river Ghaghra reaching quite close to his grave; his descendants removed his remains to Uch and buried them at the place where the shirne Hazrat Sadar-u-Din Rajan Qattal is now situated. Again in 1027 H. the then Sajjada Nashin Makhdoom Haimd son of Muhammad Nassir-u-Din, removed the remains, buried them in the present spot and erected a building over them. In 1261 H. Nawab Muhammad Bahawal Khan III made some additions to it and built a tank and well, called the khan sir, in compound of the shrine. In 1300 H. Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan IV had it repaired and made some additions. Both Hindus and Muslims in and outside the state have a firm faith in this Khanqah and all kinds of vows are made their. Over the porch of the shrine the following stanza is written (Translation): O God for the sake of the prohpethood of the messenger to mankind and genni, and for the sake of the fighter battles of Badr and Hunnain make to halves of my sins on the day of judgment, pardon one-half for the sake of Imam Hussan and the other half for the sake of the Imam Hussien.
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