796 Description of Uch-Shartf. [Dec. 



VIII. — Description of Uch-Shari'f. By Munshi Mohan Lal. 



[Dated Sit Pun, on the joint streams of the Panjab.] 

 Uch, surnamed Uch-Sharif, or holy Uch, which being near the 

 junction of the united streams Hesudrus, Hyphasis, and Hydraotes, 

 Acesines, and Hydaspes, attracts the notice of geographers, contains 

 numerous sepulchres of the Muhammadan saints. The oldest of all 

 is that of Shah Sa'if ul Haqqa'ri, but it dwindles into obscurity. A 

 miserable wall without the roof environs the dust of the above saint. 

 If I write the respective names of the saints of Uch, along with 

 their incredible miracles, I fear to enlarge my remarks : however, 

 I presume to lay before you the endeavors of my feeble pen in re- 

 gard to Shah Si ad J a lal and his reputed descendants. He died 

 600 years ago, and is said to have lived to the age of 150. His 

 tomb, which is inside a large but gloomy room, is elevated about 

 five spans from the surface of the ground. It is a very simple build- 

 ing, adorned with the poor frail and old canopy. Both of his sides 

 have ten graves of his offspring. They are distinguished by one 

 rising above the other, which fill the entire position of the room. 

 None of them have any kind of inscription. 



Sha'h Si'ad Jalal acquired a very great fume by defeating the 

 Halassu', and converting his son Bolaqu' into Islamism. He was 

 the ruler of Betuwahi, near BaMwalpur. 



Jalal had three sons, Ahmad Kabir, Baha uddin, and Siad Mu- 

 hammad. When the first of the three was about ten years old, he 

 happened to meet a man in the bazar, whose son had died of 

 some disease. He applied to Ahmad Kabir to restore his dead son 

 to life. The young saint, after making ablution, turned his face 

 towards Mecca, and repeated the words " Qum hi izn Allah*," which 

 literally means, Get up by the command of God. 



Such is the wonderful miracle described of Ahmad Kabir. When 

 he grew older, he became the father of the two reputed sons, Si'ad 

 Jalal uddin and Si'ad Muhammad Ra'ju'. The former was called 

 by the name of Makhdu'm Jahani'a'n Jahan Gasht, (or the traveller 

 and the Lord of all beings;) and the latter, Raju' Qattal, (or the 

 Baju slayer.) Numerous miracles were wrought by these two brothers. 

 They went to pilgrimage through Persia, &c. &c. &c, marrying a 

 great number of wives, and leaving children in every country, which, 

 tradition says, amounted to 12,000 ; but I doubt the authenticity of 

 the information. 



* The power of raising the dead by saying the above mentioned word, I 

 hitherto knew was only peculiar to Jesus Christ. 



