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kingship, on me hath conferred the madness of love; He offered thee dress to hide thy faults, but let me, the faultless one, pass naked."
He said "Sarmad passeth through the lane of Love, caring not if the world calls it disgraceful. From Jewish faith he passed into Islam, and then next he wandered further estranged from Islam passed to the garden of Shri Ram and Laxman. (Vide. P. 107 ibid).
A blind fanatic as Aurangzeb was, he could not tolerate such personal insult and blaspheme. The saint was executed and became a martyr. He composed poems in Persian. This collection is called "Rubayate Sarmad". He was burried at a place opposit Jamma Masjid at Delhi where every year Urs (congragation) is held. But those who cry for secularism know nothing about it.
Some Naxalbandi Sufis of 16th and 17th Cent. especially Sheikh Ahmad Sarhindi, and Shah Vali Ullah were, of course, great fanatics but chistia
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