4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN

4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN ~ 102 ~ activities of the mosque, that he observed in one of his speeches: “I thought that Nizamuddin Aulia had passed away. But I have learnt that he still lives on. I have renewed my faith during my stay here. Whosoever wishes to do the same should visit this place.” In order to understand the method that is adopted by this movement, we need to go back to its beginning. During my visit to the centre, while I was conversing with an associate of this mission, an elderly person who, by his appearance, seemed to be an illiterate villager, sat next to me. When one of my colleague casually mentioned shahadah (martyrdom), the villager added in a calm and dignified tone, “particularly when death occurs in the path of propagating the divine message.” This remark of the villagers tells us that those who devote themselves to this mission, even if they be illiterate villagers, acquire a certain degree of enlightenment and wisdom. I turned to him out of curiosity to find out who he was. He was a Mewati who had joined this movement at the age of eighteen through the