The Devotion of Life — Page 95
95 “First ran the river of Abu Bakr ra , then the river of Umar ra. Then we had the river of Usman ra followed by Ali ra and later on Qadri, Chishti, Naqshbandi and Suherwardi and continued with Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, Maulana Rome, Ibrahim Odham, Imam Ghazali, Hadrat Moieenuddin Chishti, Hadrat Data Ganj Bakhsh, Hadrat Bakhtiar Kaki, Hadrat Fariduddin of Shakar Ganj, Hadrat Nizamuddin Aulia, Hadrat Khawaja Saleem Chishti, Hadrat Syed Ahmad of Sarhind, Hadrat Syed Waliullah Shah Sahib, Hadrat Khawaja Mir Dard Sahib, Hadrat Syed Ahmad of Baraili and in the end The Promised Messiah as is the continuation of that same river of guidance. Some rivers flowed for two miles, some for four miles and some continued for a hundred and fifty years. But the river of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) started from Arabia and extended to Constantinople and Poland in the North. On the other side, it reached Sicily through Europe. In the West it passed through Egypt and continued through Tunisia, Algeria and Spain and extended to Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana) and Nigeria. It spread towards the East through Persia, Bokhara, China, India and Burma and in the South to Indonesia and the Philippines – wherever these rivers flowed, they spread Islam. ” (Sair-e- Roohani; Vol. 3, pp. 78-79) OOOO ---- OOOO