In search of Economy of Love: Sufi & Waqf

I am looking for Shah Abul Maali everywhere these days, who was, perhaps a sufi who made his khanqah in Ambaihta village, Saharanpur. He died in 1131 A.H./1719 A.D. and after his death his chief disciple, Syed Meeran Bheek built a beautiful tomb with the money he got from Emperor Mohammad Shah. Later on the Emperor granted them madad-i-maash of 22 villages. Interestingly, the Dargah of Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari in same locality, which was more popular, got a grant of a single village! my search took me to the village Ambaitha. It is 30 k.m. away from Saharanpur on Saharanpur-Nukur road. It is a well developed village, the tomb I was looking for, is built of red sand stone and quite massive later Mughal building. I tried to find out some more but did not succeed except copying some dates inscribed on the monument.

Haveli: Sajjadanashin of Shah Abul Maali

I came back to Delhi and tried my luck in National Archives. Here, I met an old friend, who has always been very near to me . We talked a little about our lives, our research and of course about Shah Abul Maali. After the mini discourse we got back to our work. After that I could not work, actually. It is really sometime difficult to concentrate on your work if you open a different folder of your life unexpectedly. The friend of mine was an old chapter of my life, we used to spend a lot of time together, watched movies, worked together and hanged around unnecessarily. Now, when we met after long 2 years, we had nothing to talk about, did not go for usual tea shop. Is it necessary to accept some 'truths' ? Isn't it painful to be 'truthful'?

ok, lets get back to our Shah Abul Maali. My experience says, there is always a dispute attached with 'maya' (here, money), so following my trait I went to Law Faculty Library and started looking for Indian Law Reports. After an hour or so I finally came across one Allahabad High Court Judgement of 1909. It was a case instituted against the custodian and descendant of the saint that he misappropriate the funds of the dargah waqf, and destroying the dargah. It is interesting to know that this dargah had two sajjadanashins (sitter of the carpet) i.e., spiritual heir of the dead sufi. After death of old sajjadanashin, his two sons decided to divide the spiritual seat as well as the grant villages among themselves, one being elder got 11 1/2 villages and the younger one accepted 10 1/2 villages. It was not unusual for me that someone divided property but it was certainly 'a rare of the rarest' example of dividing spiritual prowess of the saint that came to them through the chord of blood from the great saint! Love has its own sort of economy and so as the 'Sufic love' which emanated devotion! The two brothers had actually set an example of brother-hood, they had agreed upon setting up two chord of spiritual blood, which might have brought them some income in way of 'gifts' and nazranas, but they in fact, had restored their own love in the same way Hamayun had done by dividing his territory among his brothers.