Hazrath Tawakkal Mastan Shah Soharwardi [Rahmathullahi Alaihi]
Bismillah-Hir-Rahman-Nir-Raheem
"Ala inna awliya 'Allahi la khawfun aalayhim waa la hum yahzanoona"
"Lo! verily the friends of Allah! No fear comes upon them, nor shall they grieve."(Quran-10:62) Chapter Yunus
Allahumma Salle ala Syedina Muhammadin Wa'ala aalihi Syedina Muhammadin Wa Barik Wa Sallim.
DARGAH NAME: - HAZRATH TAWAKKAL MASTAN SHA SOHERWARDI [Rahmathullahi Alaihi]
LOCATED: - COTTONPET.
CITY: - BANGALORE.
STATE: - KARNATAKA.
COUNTRY: - INDIA.
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BISMILLAH HIR RAHMAN NIR RAHEEM.
NAHAMADAHU WO NUSALLI ALA RASOOLI HIL KAREEM SALALAHU ALAIHI WO SALAM. SUFI
SAINT HAZRAT TAWAKKAL MASTAN SHAH SOHARWARDI (RA), COTTONPET, BANGALORE.
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DARGAH SHARIFF OF SOHARWARDIA SUFI SAINT
HAZRAT TAWAKKAL MASTAN BABA (RA) IS THE BIGGEST AND MOST FAMOUS OF ALL THE
DARGAHS IN BANGALORE.
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The Annual Urs At
The Dargah Of Hazrat Tawakkal Mastan Baba In Cottonpet Is Held On 19th Safar.
The Place Of Worship Has An Interesting History That Reflects The Essentially
Secular Nature Of Our Culture.
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The Dargah Of
Tawakkal Mastan Bears Testimony To Our Syncretic Cultural Legacy. A Valued
Tradition That Has Been Seriously Threatened In Recent Times. A Place Visited
By Hindus And Muslims Alike, This Dargah Has A History Of Over 200 Years.
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The Tradition Continues To This Day And The Karaga-Carriers Visit The Dargah Three Days Prior To The Karaga Puja Begins. He Visits The Dargah On The Day Of The Karaga As Well, With The Karaga On His Head. When He Arrives, The Fateha, Ritual Is Performed, After Which The Karaga-Carrier Goes Round The Dargah Thrice. He Walks The First Round, Goes Around On His Knees On The Second, And Dances Around The Dargah On The Third. After This, The Caretaker Of The Dargah And The Karaga Carrier Exchange Lemons.
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The Dargah's History Takes Us Back To The
Time Of Nawab Hyder Ali Khan.
The King, After
Accession To The Throne, Wanted To Build A Sloped Wall To His Fort At
Kalasipalya And Replace The Mud Walls With Stone Walls. Three Men - Hazrath
Tawakkal Mastan, Hazrath Manik Mastan, And Hazrath Tipu Mastan - Came To
Bangalore And Joined The Work Force At The Construction Site. The Three Worked
With Other Labourers During Day, And Spent The Night, In Prayers. The Three, It
Is Said, Would Not Draw Salaries, And Hyder Was Puzzled To Note That They Were
Always Missing On Salary Day. Hyder Saheb Asked The Quiledar To Enquire Into
The Mystery. Hyder's Maternal Uncle, Banke Nawab Ibrahim, Who Investigated The
Men, Learnt That The Three Went To Mosque In Kumbarpet After Work And Slept
There. When He Went To The Mosque To Look For Them, He Saw No Labourers There,
But Only Three Parts Of A Human Body, With Two Dogs Standing Guard Over Them.
The Quiledar Narrated This To Hyder, And He Realised Instantly That The Three
Were Not Labourers, But Great Saints. The Story Goes That From The Blessings Of
Hazrat Tipu Mastan, Hyder Ali Had A Son, Whom He Appropriately Named After The
Saint. It Is Said That Hazrat Manik Mastan Died In Bangalore And His Tomb Is On
Avenue Road. Tipu Mastan Left Bangalore And His Tomb Is In Arcot In Tamil Nadu.
Tawakkal Mastan Stayed In Bangalore And Settled In Cottonpet, Which Was Then A
Small Area Full Of Thorny Shrubs. Hyder Ali Saheb Visited The Place And Wanted
To Present The Saint Something. The Saint, Who Did Not Accept Any Gifts, Asked
Hyder Ali To Build A Mosque There. Work On The Mosque Began In 1777 And Was
Completed In 1783 By His Son Tipu Sultan. A Stone Inscription At The Tomb
States That Hazrat Tawakkal Mastan Preached Islam And Passed Away In 1777. A
Book Written By Kirmani In Persian, Describes Hazrat Tawakklal As A Sufi Saint
And A Disciple Of Another Sufi Saint, Baba Fakruddin Of Penugonda In Andhra
Pradesh. There Is Another Version To The Story, Though. According To That
Version, Tawakkal Mastan, Also Known By The Name Mirza Baig, Came To Bangalore
From Iran Many Years Ago. He Traded In The Famous Persian Horses. Later, He Is
Said To Have Given Up His Trade And Devoted All His Time To Religious Pursuits.
Around The Same Time, Hyder Ali Wanted To Expand And Develop Bangalore. He
Brought People Of The Thigala Community From Tiruchinapalli, Arcot, Thanjavur,
And Madurai To Help Him In This Work. Among Them Was A Scholar Known For His
Philanthropic Work, Aptly Called Dharmaraya. Dharmaraya Wanted Hyder Ali To
Build A Temple And A Math. Hyder Ali Constructed The Temple And The Math, Which
Were Named Dharmaraya Swamy Math And Dharmaraya Swamy Temple. In An Interesting
Development, The Two Religious Systems Came Together At One Point In Time, And
The Annual Karaga Of Dharmaraya Swamy Visiting Tawakkal Mastan Dargah Became A
Tradition. It Is Considered A Sacrilege For The Person Carrying The Karaga To
Drop It. The Story Goes That During Tawakkal's Time, One Particular Year, The
Person Carrying The Karaga Stopped At Tawakkal Mastan Dargah And Asked For His
Blessings So That Karaga Would Not Fall Off His Head. Tawakkal Blessed Him And
Asked Him To Utter "Din, Din". The Tradition Continues To This Day
And The Karaga-Carriers Visit The Dargah Three Days Prior To The Karaga Puja
Begins. He Visits The Dargah On The Day Of The Karaga As Well, With The Karaga
On His Head. When He Arrives, The Fateha, Ritual Is Performed, After Which The
Karaga-Carrier Goes Round The Dargah Thrice. He Walks The First Round, Goes
Around On His Knees On The Second, And Dances Around The Dargah On The Third.
After This, The Caretaker Of The Dargah And The Karaga Carrier Exchange Lemons.
The Dargah Is Visited By Scores Of Hindus, Muslims, And Christians Every Day.
An Interesting Tradition Here Is That Some Marwaris And Gujaratis Come To The
Dargah Early In The Morning And Give Away Bread And Idlis As Breakfast For The
Poor. The Secretary Of The Trust That Runs Hazrath Tawakkal Mastan Shah Dargah
Mosque, Mohammed Nasrulla, Says That The Trust Also Involves Itself In Social
And Educational Activities. It Runs HTM Computer Institute, HTM English School,
Al Kateeb TCH College, A Nursery Training Institute, HTM Urdu School, And
Arabic Classes. The HTM English School Is Adjacent To The Dargah Compound And
Has 500 Students Who Come From All Communities. "Hindus And Christians Are
Part Of The School, And This Charitable Institution Caters To The Needs Of The
Poor Of The Surrounding Areas," Says R.N. Satyanarayana, The Principal.
The Headmistress Of The School, Nagamani, Says The School Stands As A Symbol Of
Hindu-Muslim Amity. Ghousia Sarai, Also Run By The Trust, Was Built In 1953
With The Idea Of Supporting Social Causes. It Conducts Marriages Of Poor People
And Provides Them Financial Aid. The Sarai Provides Boarding Facilities, Where
Poor Belonging To Any Community Can Rent Rooms At Low Rates. The Dargah Has
Been Visited By Many Celebrities. Amitabh Bachchan, After Surviving The
Horrendous Injury During The Filming Of Coolie, Visited The Dargah, Offered His
Thanks And Gave Charity To The Poor. Music Director A.R. Rahman Is Said To
Visit The Dargah Regularly. Kannada Filmstar Raj Kumar's Family Members Are
Also Among The Visitors Here. On The Annual Urs Day Procession Starts From
Cottonpet. It Goes Through City Market, Chickpet, And Returns To The Dargah.
