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2004-01-13 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-13 00:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 History of Hazrat Shah Jalal here. Also this on what may be the festival that got boomed:

Urush: This is the annual gathering of the Sufis and general people during the anninversary of Shah Jalal's death. Urush is also observered fob his deciples in many part of Sylhet. Thousands of Fakirs (transient men who live in jungles and shrines of Sufi saints), in red robes with iron sticks in their hands and colorful garlands in their necks, travels to Sylhet from all over Bangladesh. Some even travel from distant parts of India. These Fakirs closely resembles the original Hindu Sadhu-Sanyashis (hermits) who treaded this land for centuries. Many of them are for simple pleasures of Ganja (Marijauna), Hashish, etc, but nobody knows who is the real one. Strict Islamic clerics tried, though unsuccessfully, to stop these festivities, as Islam strongly forbids any saint worship or assigning divine power to any human.

Seems to be Sufi shrine, guess those strict clerics are trying again.

Posted by Steve 2004-1-13 9:27:16 AM|| 2004-1-13 9:27:16 AM|| Front Page Top

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