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Pir Hadi Rahnuma
This is situated on the road leading from Anarkali and Mian Mir to the
Central jail, towards the east, just behind the Scindh Panjab Railway’s
Hotel (Nedou’s Hotel,) It is an old and slendid mausoleum, now,
however, in a state of decay, built on a raised platform, after the model
of the mausoleum of Jahangir across the Ravi. It is built in the
form of a summer-house, and has double rooms, or verandahs, on all the
four sides of the roof, each being built of solid masonry, in the form
of a dome. There are five arched rooms on each side. Beneath
the mausoleum were underground chambers, now closed. On the floor
are three tombs, one of Pir Hadi, and two others of Muhsin Shah and abdulla
Shah, his brothers, sons of Syad Abdul Kadir, son of Syad Shams-ud-din
Tebrez, whose celebrated mausoleum at Multan is a place of great sanctity.
To the north of the mausoleum is an old well in perfect preservation,
and still in use. The fine mosque, attached to this mausoleum, has
now been utilized as an English house. It was built by Kalla Khan,
an Amir of Akbar’s Court. The mausoleum was built in the time
of Babar. The saint died in 681 A.H. The mausoleum was decorated
with marble lattice work of exquisite beauty; round the roof were railings
of marble, and the arches were supported by pillars of red sand-stone.
Raja Dhian Singh, the Prime Minister of Ranjit Singh, divested the building
of all its valuable stone, and sent it to Jammu. The floor of the
underground chambers was of marble, which has been all removed.
Pir Hadi Rahnuma is the saint whose memory is much revered by the Khojas
of Lahore, a wealthy class of Mussalmans who deal chiefly in corn. |
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