HAZRAT FAQEER NOOR MUHAMMAD

Sheikh, Hazrat Faqir Nur Muhammad (RA) was born in Kulatchi - a little known village in the district of Dera Ismail Khan in the North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan. He is a Path an by tribe and belong to the Gandapur class who trace their descent from the famous saint Hazrat Sayyid Muhammed Ghesu-daraaz (RA), who lies buried in Hyderabad - Deccan, where his magnificent tomb stands today.

Hazrat Nur Muhammed (RA) had copiously traveled all over India in connection with `dawatul qubur' (invitation of Graves or invocation of the spirits.) He has recited the invitation on them and reaped spiritual gain from the luminous graves of almost all the munificent saints and great magnates.He use to say that one night's invitation at the grave of a saint is more beneficial than years of asceticism and austerities. If the enshrined soul of the saint co-operates, he can cause the inviter to traverse overnight all the stages traversed by the him in his own life time.
Grans-Sheikh was a high ranked scholar, a noble Sufi, a grand dervish, a far-sighted humble Faqir and an experienced saint. In his seventy-five years of age he had witnessed innumerable worldly vicissitudes and untold spiritual secrets. He had occasions of meeting and talking to people of different schools of thought and various ideas; including scholars, muftis, Sufis, pious spiritualists, leaders, statesmen and pious people etc., he took a very wide and liberal view of Sufism, Faqr and Spiritualism and had spent all his life in research of this spiritual world. Theoretically and practically he was fully cognizant of all the ups and downs of Faqr and Sufism.
He had full experience of differentiating between the genuine and counterfoil, reality and imitation, truth and falsehood. In the words of his son ; `I have had many occasions of traveling with him and each time I had to acknowledge his minute observation in this field. I often noticed that through his spiritual sight he judged in a moment the esoteric capacity of every Faqir, dervish or Sufi who came to see him or whom he met. I have also witnessed repeatedly, that he could gauge the spiritual power of former saintly people who had passed away. Another strange thing that I noticed is this, that he could sense the tombs of saints without seeing them. Out of many such incidents I will confine myself to mentioning a few.Hazrat Sheikh and my elder brother Faqir Abdul Hamid were passing through a lane in Lahore in 1935. In the words of my brother; `Hazrat Sheikh said; `I feel the presence of the tomb of some saint here......... it must be somewhere close by.' I enquired from some shopkeepers but they expressed their ignorance. I informed Hazrat Sheikh that there was no trace of any tomb around there. `It is there. I feel its presence outright. Make further enquiries ' he said. I made father enquiries. At last one old man said; Yes there is a saint (buried) in this street.' Guiding us through wading lanes he took us to the tomb of a Faqir. We read the Opening Chapter and returned. Later on I enquired from Hazrat Sheikh how he came to know about it. He replied; `Wherever there is the grave of some saint, the hearts of the people of wisdom feel its spiritual waves in accordance with its spiritual power. The more powerful the saint the more forcibly and distantly his waves strike the heart and his spiritualism is felt. The orbit of the waves of the saintly dead with ordinary power is limited according to their power.'In the book `Irfan' Hazrat Sheikh writes that: `Once in a dream I saw the following inscription written in bold, brilliant letters in beautiful Arabic script on the sky `Nur Muhammad is Hannifin Muslim and not amongst the polytheists', this fully convinced me of my being a true Unitarian and follower of the orthodox faith.'