Visiting Madina - Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan
Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan was unique in the sense he was both a Muslim scholar who wrote a number of works in Arabic and likewise the ruler of the province of Bhopal during the British colonial era. He undertook Hajj and thereafter visited the illuminated city of Madina, he describes his experience as follows in his Arabic work Rihlah al-Siddiq (p.165)
It happened that I stayed in this blessed city for a week. I was able to visit the Masjid al-Nabawi, and greet the illuminated resting place of al-Mustafa and his companions, visit his Baqi, the martyrs of Uhud, not least the master of the martyrs (Sayyid al-Shuhada) Hamza- Allah Most High be pleased with him- and other masjids and wells. Especially the Masjid of Quba in the transmitted manner according to the sunnah.
The city of Madinah is full of different types of blessing, and traces (athar) of mercy and lights from divine manifestations (tajalliyat). How (could this not be) when the divine lights and Prophetic blessings are exuding from its walls, and tranquility and dignity (waqar) descend at all times times upon its buildings.
