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Pilgrimage: Musa Dervish’s tabernacle spreads light in Waziristan
- Updated: August 12, 2016
Site gives people wish in an area so ridden with conflict. PHOTO: FILE
DI KHAN: Nearly 50 kilometres from Wana Bazaar, in a radiant ease of Birmal Valley lies a tomb of Musa Nika, who was a darveish. It is situated on a banks of Nika Alqad, a channel where a site gets a name.
The tomb was built by Akbar S Ahmad, a domestic representative of South Waziristan.
Over time, those elements who have attempted to crush a chronological hint have been mostly unsuccessful. Recently devotees have uttered concerns that a tabernacle is situated too tighten to a H2O and might be lifted to a belligerent in box of a healthy catastrophe.
Nevertheless, a vast series of people revisit a tabernacle to safeguard their wishes are fulfilled. In a past, many people walking barefoot over disproportionate banks, anticipating that their hardship would make a darveish acknowledge their wishes and extend them their desires.
Zarmina Bibi, a proprietor of Waziristan, told The Express Tribune people revisit a tabernacle with an array of wishes.
People who wish to be married to their dear would mostly stand a tree outward a tabernacle and lift their hands in prayer, anticipating to be listened in a heavens above. In some cases, it has worked and people hailing from a area have low honour for a tabernacle as good as for a male that lies within it.
In 1929, Habibullah Bacha Saqao overthrew Amir Amanullah Khan in Kabul. Shortly after this, Amir Amanullah visited a tabernacle and prayed for strength. Later, in annoy of a British domestic influence, Amir Amanullah took his bench behind as a tribes overthrew Bacha Saqao. The fable is still remembered in a area, adding to a people’s adore for Musa Nika.
“Musa Dervish is believed to have lived with cattle in Birmal and not many sum about his life are known,” says Nisar Ahmad Nisar Lala. He continued observant that Musa had taken an promise and was underneath a origin of Bahadar Baba, a sufi from Kohat.
“In Waziristan, a tribes were normal people, though they did set a lot of store in peers and ziarat,” says Gul Marjan, a PhD academician and consultant on Fata. “There are so many peers in history. Other such sites include, Pir Roshan, Pir Tareek and Roshanai Tehreek,” Gul Marjan added.
When eremite fanatics came into power, a conditions changed. People no longer set most store in saints and shrines, Marjan continued.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 13th, 2016.