The stories I know about Multani Baba are from the oral history known and told in Juna Akhara, in which one of the 52 lineages bears his name. Since he was also known as Pir Shams by the Muslims, and has a dargah in his name in Multan, I wanted to have oral history from the Muslim side.
So, when my very dear friend, Peter Pannke, an esteemed singer, poet, and author told me he was making a trip to Pakistan, he asked if there was anything he could do for me, there, I asked him if he was going to Multan. “Would you like me to?” he replied. I gave him a list of 20 questions I wanted answers for. The leading question was where was Baba buried (within the dargah)?
As fate would have it, upon entering the threshold of the dargah, he literally bumped into the Mukadam of the dargah, who was the leading local authority on Pir Shams, and was pleased to grant a video interview with Peter.
Not only did we learn that Multani Baba was not buried in the dargah, the khabar was empty, but at his ashram in Suraj Kund, 6 km distant, but the Mukadam confirmed almost all that I had told Peter from our Naga Baba oral history.
THE VIDEO (IN URDU):
