Pir Shams takes a test of Jamat!

[agakhani]

Did you know?
That Pir Shamsh had two disciples? , Surajbhan and Chandrabhan also call (Vimras), there is a story on Chandrabhan,
one day Pir Shamsh decided to take test of the jamat in Punjab, he asked jamat to bring hard wheat bread and human meat. It was easy to find
hard wheat bread but human meat?!!! who can give their own meat?
Pir shamsh stop to take any food until his request has been fulfilled. Jamat was helpless because nobody came forward and offered their own human meat to pir. At last blind Chandrabhan came forward and sacrificed his body and present his own meat to pir, pir Shamsh accepted and became very happy on him and in return he gave his eyes light and his life back and made him true disciple.

[prince_visram]

Did you know?
That Pir Shamsh had two disciples? , Surajbhan and Chandrabhan also call (Vimras), there is a story on Chandrabhan,
one day Pir Shamsh decided to take test of the jamat in Punjab, he asked jamat to bring hard wheat bread and human meat. It was easy to find
hard wheat bread but human meat?!!! who can give their own meat?
Pir shamsh stop to take any food until his request has been fulfilled. Jamat was helpless because nobody came forward and offered their own human meat to pir. At last blind Chandrabhan came forward and sacrificed his body and present his own meat to pir, pir Shamsh accepted and became very happy on him and in return he gave his eyes light and his life back and made him true disciple.

This was really cool when I first came to know of this story when listening to a waez. I later brought up the subject on the "Shukarvaree Beej" thread and Kmaherali helped me by posing the ginan's translation:

http://www.ismaili.net/html/modules.php ... 5e5e30c57a

Giving an order (farman), the Lord said:
"Listen, Pir Shams! Go amidst the following (jama at) today
and administer a test of faith (iman)."

Pir Shams replied:
"Listen, O Shah! I will demand
from the gathering (gat)
whatsoever it is you wish."

"Ask for bread made of kdthd1 flour
and order human flesh;
Whoever submits flesh will attain
the abode of Heaven (vaikuntha)."

Then Pir Shams departed
and arrived at Uchh in Multan;
All followers assembled and prostrated:
"O GurujI, your wish is our command!"

"Offer only what is within your means
and be of steadfast mind;
But if you prepare some food for me,
I will bestow heartfelt blessings (asisa)."

Pir Shams then said:
"Listen, O Gathering of followers (gat jama'at)] I
require of you only this for which
I shall bestow heartfelt blessings!"

"Bring to me some bread made of katha flour
and fetch me some human flesh;
The one who gives this flesh will attain
a dwelling in Heaven."................ 7

Stunned, the gathering discussed this:
"Who will give up their own flesh?
Pir Shams will save the resolute, but who, indeed,
dares to go near the Pir?"........... 8

Pir Shams sat down with a rosary to pray:
"O Saheb, preserve my honor (laj)!"
For seven days he kept fast (roza), and nobody
dared to go near the Pir............. 9

Then a blind mendicant arrived
and promptly sat down in the prayer-house;
"Take your gold dagger in your hand
and feast upon my flesh!"........... 10

"Your offer has satisfied me.
Auspicious (dhanya) that moment, blessed that night!
That day when you were born!
Great, indeed, shall be your fortune!".......... 11

Then Qasim Shah himself appeared
and began the rite of Holy Water (ghatpat);
He brought a cupful of Light (nur),
and Pir Shams accompanied him................. 12

Pir Shams said:
"Listen, O my Lord!
In the prayer-house is a blind sage;
deliver him into Divine Light (nur ilahi)!"...............13

[The Shah gave the blind mendicant the cup]2;
He drank the cupful of Light (nur)
and lo! he witnessed the entire universe!................... 14

Then Pir Shams said:
"O Blind Ascetic, listen!
Go and join the congregation for it is now time
for us to depart."....... 15

The blind mendicant stood up,
and he came amidst the following;
"Now fetch the cases and prepare,
for time has come for the Plr to depart!"

The gathering asked the blind man:
"Did you sacrifice yourself to the Plr?
Only yesterday, you bumped into walls
but now you walk tall!"

"Yes, I sacrificed myself to the Plr
and thus drank of Divine Light;
Had he not promised a place in Heaven
to the sacrificer of one's flesh?"

The assembly pondered over his words
and then approached the Plr;
"Take the gold dagger in your hand
and feast upon our flesh."

"That opportunity has passed!
Indeed, who can consume human flesh?"
"Now fetch the cases and prepare,
for the time has come for the Plr to depart!'

The whole gathering began to weep;
men and women both wept!
"If the Plr departs from here upset,
wretched will be our fate!"

Plr Shams said:
"Listen, O following!
I will give the final verdict at my own place;
now it is time to depart."

On Thursday, the seventeenth day
of the month Vaisakha,3
On that day the Plr travelled all the way
to Ucch in Multan.

Seventeen-hundred people followed the Plr
to his own place;
Placing their cases there, they said:
"Plr give us your last decree."

Plr Shams said:
"Listen, O gathering! Every twelve months
Keep a fast (roza) on this day,
and you will attain Heaven (vaikuntha)."

"All men and women must observe this fast,
even little children;
If every twelve months you keep the fast,
you will attain Heaven."

Plr Shams spoke his wisdom (ginan) firmly:
"Listen, O Followers!
Only thus will my curse not strike you,
and you will attain Heaven."

1. A kind of hard reddish wheat.
2. The first line of this verse is missing in the Gujarati text.
3. Seventh month of the Vikram vear.