Fire

The dargah  of the Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalander, 'The Red Royal Falcon' of Sehwan Sharif needs no introduction. Here,sixty years after Partition, one of the sajjada nasheens is still a Hindu,and it is he who performs the opening ritual at the annual 'URS'.The Hidus were said to regard Lal Shahbaz Qalander as a reincarnation of the sensual Sanskrit poet turned Shaivite ascetic, Bhartrihari,who renounced the pleasure of the court of Ujjain and moved to Sehwan, where he lived as an ash-smeared sadhu, and was later cremated on the site of the present shrine. The Hindus also know Lal Shahbaz by a third name: Jhule Lal. He is said to have punished himself with great feats of self-mortification,testing his self-discipline by engaging in the Hindu ascetic practice of tapasya,sitting in a cauldron over a fire, so turning his skin red. It was also here,that the saint transformed himself into a falcon-the other legend which gave the saint his name. On one occasion he flew to  Mecca to perform evening prayers at the  Ka'ba; another time he flew off to the aid of his friend Shekh Bahauddin Zakariya, who was in mortal danger from the King of Multan.

There is a short story. 'One day Lal Shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Zakariya. It was winter, and evening time, so they began to build a fire to keep warm. They found some wood, but then they realized they had no fire. So Zakariya suggested that Lal Shahbaz turn himself into a falcon and get fire from hell. Off he flew, but an hour later he came empty handed. " There is no fire in hell", he reported. 

" Every one who goes there brings their own fire, and their own pain, from this world."

What a striking similarity!  Data Kambal Shah , also known as CHHEDI SHAH or Vakil Saheb or Rajendra Prasad whose Majar is in Goshala Road , Muzaffarpur  was a born Hindu and Kayastha by caste, r enunciated and renounced the pleasure of court of Monghyr where he was a practicing lawyer of splendid repute and moved to Muzaffarpur to  where he had lived as an ash smeared Kambal carrying faqueer upto 1957.Once he told in ecstasy and trans "Wanha ki Aag se yanha ki Aag  behtar hai"( As told to my father  Sri P K Dubey who happens to be  the closest desciple of Baba)

Here also all the essential rituals are performed by Hindus. It is believed that  Baba was incarnation of Ram Krishna Paramhans.