” The time which I spent in Khānqāh Imdādīyyah Thānabhawan were extremely joyous and blessed moments of my life. The first good fortune of presenting myself there was at the time when I was a student at Dār al-‛Ulūm Deoband. It was most probably during the Dhul Hijjah holidays of 1337 A.H. when I went there to meet Hadrat Thānwī quddisa sirruhu. It was my good fortune that I also acquired the honour of bay‛ah (pledging allegiance) to him. Hadrat Maulānā Fatahpūrī Sāhib [about whom this biography is written] and Khwājah Sāhib (Majdhūb Takhallus) were people whom I had known since before, and they were present in the khānqāh at the time. Maulānā Fatahpūrī was instructed to sit behind Hadrat Thānwī’s sitting place, to the right of a small room. While seated there, he used to pen down Hadrat’s statements. ”

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