25.STILL THERE

Istay diagonally across Badri Mahal. Hamein masjid na padosi pun masjid ma namaaz padva fakad pehli raatey aney jumma ni raatey jaiyye. One night I dreamt of SyednaTaher Saifuddin Saheb telling me that ‘Saifuddin, tu yeh Badri Mahal ma maari vasiyat joi chhey?’ I replied in mydream that ‘Ji na Maula’ and the vision faded.
 
One day, the thought began to nag me that Bawasaheb na kalaam – even if it happened only in a dream – ma koi na koi hikmat to howi joiyye, so I went down to the Badri Mahal masjid and started looking around on the walls for telltale signs of what the vasiyat could be. Suddenly, I saw Sk Abdulqadir and I ventured to ask him. And the first thing he said was ‘Aa rahi’ and there on the wall of Badri Mahal was a frame. Just a frame, which I had overlooked for decades. And it was a ‘vasiyat’ to mumineen from Muqaddas Maula on how they should regularly pray in the masjid. Today, I pray in the masjid every day.
-         Bhai Saifuddin Kopty, Bombay