When I was a 17 year old, our family members including cousins decided to go to Darjeeling for a holiday.

Before leaving, someone from among us asked for Moulana’s raza. Surprisingly, he refused. I was upset on

hearing this. My instinctive reaction was: why did we have to ask him for raza? As it turned out, we dropped

Darjeeling from the reckoning and went elsewhere. When we returned, we realized that the train we were to board for Darjeeling had met with an accident and our compartment had been derailed!