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Brief Biographical sketch of Mukth Ded(RA)

Kashmir is known as an abode of sages and seers. One such sage namely Mukth Ded springs up from the soil of Theed .She was the permanent resident of Theed. She belonged to Bhat dynasty lived in Mukdam Mohallah of the same village. Very little is known about her childhood but according to her relatives, she had two sons who died in a prime age in old-Theed. Their sudden death perturbed her psychological. In order to have peace of mind, she visited the shrine of renowned Sufi Saint Khaja Hibibu-Ulla Noshahri( RA) from Nowshahar Srinagar. Her frequent visits to the shrine not only opened a new ray of hope for life but also brought calmness in her soul and heals her sickness. She acquainted with the world of spirituality. Mukth Ded (RA) never forgot to attend annual gathering ( Niyaz ) organized every year in the memory of great saint. She even collected material donations like pulses, vegetables for that noble cause from her native village. She accepted her as her spiritual Master and took the oath of allegiance in absentia. Like her Murshid, she attained the highest spiritual status that is Tayee Muqam. (Transcending Space and Time). This is the certain higher states of consciousness, time, as normally understood, and has no meaning. The annihilation or elimination of time is one of the salient characteristics of mystical experience. In the ecstatic state the mystic is “able to overcome all barriers of time and space and can travel any distance within the fraction of time. She was known for her divine love and Chasity who conquered herself (Nafs) through devotion, meditation, contemplation, patience (Sabr) as well as fear and trust in God. (Tawwakul). She was constantly absorbed in the thought of Almighty Allah.She was known for her extreme virtue and piety, revered by all. People had abundant faith on her. If anyone from our villages was in deep distress or faced any difficult, he/she sought special Supplications ( Duwa) from her. Her spiritual status was so high that even the great saint of the valley Mirk Shah Kashani( RA) often visited her residence at New Theed to have a  spiritual discourse. One day, when one of his disciples asked him why he visited here why not that lady come to his Khanqha at Shalimar to meet him there? Mir Shah Sahab(RA) uttered these famous lines in favor her. “The difference between her spiritually status and I is that she is sitting very close to our Prophet Mohammad’s (pbum)  special  chamber (Hujri Khas) whereas my position is that I am still sitting in the corridor” One more things which is famous about her life is that she sent one of her disciple to Shalimar a day before her death to inform Syed Mirak Shah Sahab(RA) about her imminent death that happened on Monday. She also told one of her relatives to arrange simple and unwritten remaining stone for her grave as the mark of identity. Her disciples insists her to erect a tomb on her grave but she refused.

As narrated by his relatives she had a good number of followers from Dal -Area mostly from Dalgate- Kutar-khan. Long back when an epidemics broke out in that area. People requested Mukth Ded for prayer to avoid such a grave situation which snatched the lives of many. She organised a special prayer and the situation became normal. She had such an amiable nature that everybody in the village be young or old call her Ded (Grandmother in Kashmiri) Hazrat Khwaja Habibullah Nowsheri (R.A) is one of the great saints of Kashmir. He (R.A) has brought into light many things regarding Sufism, love for Allah through his poetry in Arabic and Persian .The shrine of Khawaja Habibullah Nowsheri, a great saint of Kashmir is situated at Nowshera to the north of Srinagar. The urs is held on his death anniversary.

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