Gulshan Sadiq English edition (ePub)

This book 'Gulshan Sadiq' is very old and is published by Mir Waris Ali Ibn Mir Hidayat Ali Pirzada in Urdu language and translated by me into the English language for the first time. He has published this book in the Urdu language in the year 1981. Please note it is a biography book of the Hazrat Syed Shah Mohammed Sadiq Sarmast Hussaini in the Urdu language. It is a very hard task to gather all details as Hazrat was not only a great pious personality of his time in the area of the Western coast of India that is in Nasik but he was also a great preacher of his time. So, in brief, he was the highest cadre of holy saint of his time on the Western coast of India. For a long time, he was engaged in religious discourses, sermons, and spiritual training of the people and he did also many great endeavours for the preaching and propagation work of Islam in the areas of Western India and around this region and there was no such personality during his time. About him, Professor Thomas Arnold has written as follows.

"The descendants of another saint Shah Muhammad Sadiq Sarmast Husayni, are still found in Nasik; he is said to have been the most successful of Muhammadan missionaries; having come from Medina in 1568, he traveled over the greater part of Western India and finally settled at Nasik — in which district another very successful Muslim missionary, Khaja Khutmir Husayni, had begun to labour about fifty years before.' Two other Arab missionaries may be mentioned, the scene of who proselytizing

efforts was laid in the district of Belgaum, namely Syed Muhammad b. Syed 'All and Syed 'Umar 'Aydriis Ba-Sheban."

He was the spiritual master of emperor Shah Jehan and queen Mumtaz Mahal and as well as other nobles of the royal court of the Mughal empire who have followed him and acted upon his teaching and preaching mission in India.

The readers will find interest in reading this book due to the positive information and great details of this Sufi saint and who had arrived on the western coast of India from Yemen.

This book is edited and formatted as per the great book 'Muslim saints and Mystics' in the English version (Tadhkirtal Auliya by Farid al-Din Attar) which is very famous in the Western world among the English knowing persons. So, for this reason, there will be some small differences in it while comparing with the Urdu books and its literature. The aim of this book is to present in the Western world where there are great search and demand of the books of Sufism and biographies of holy saints who lived and spent their entire lives for the preaching and propagation of Islamic religion in all corners of the world as per tradition and practice of Allah's last prophet.

This is a small book in which there is a biography of Hazrat Syed Shah Mohammed Sadiq Sarmast Hussaini is added and in this book, there are some great achievements of this great Sheikh from Nasik region in western India, which are not yet known to the general, persons and other persons are published in a very interesting style so, for this reason, the readers will find great interest and attention in this matter.

From the above facts and details, if the readers will start reading this book's first chapter and will not stop its reading till they will reach its last chapter as in this book some interesting events and as well as other great miracles and endeavours of the holy saint are added and this holy saint who was passed away from the world some more than about 750-800 years ago.