There is a remarkable story researched and written by Bahen Rashida Abdulhisain in her book ‘A stoiry of faith’(page 66). There were attempts by the local population of a certain part of Africa in the late Sixties (after Muqaddas Maula had passed away) to forcibly marry young mumineen women. The community responded by sending a number of girls to other cities and countries of the continent where they would be safer. One of the moomena,who was still to leave, feared being forcibly picked up and coerced into marriage. She called the local Amil sahib with these words: “I know it is four o’clock in the morning but I swear that I am neither asleep nor dreaming. I am standing here in my balcony and before me on the road, I can see Syedna Taher Saifuddin leading Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin by the hand and they are walking through the streets, Amil sahib!”

In Yemen, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin was told of the miracle of Syedna Taher Saifuddin and himself on the streets. Maula put his handkerchief to his face and wept. “Indeed,” he said, as he wiped away his tears, “that was the way my father was. Whenever one remembers him, he is there.”

-         Courtesy: A story of faith by Rashida Abdulhusain