Multan as a convention which does a
reversal to the Bronze Age. Rich in archaic exploration and the history, the
city has a great deal to offer for those looking for culture. Yet, more then
anything, the landmarks give the district its very own wonderfulness.
Old Multan is really an invigorated
city based on an enormous old hill and with six entryways set at better places.
The six passageways to the old city are; Dault Gate, Bohar Gate and Lahori
Gate. Three of these (Dault, Lahori and Pak) Gates have been annihilated while
the staying three are in place, albeit even these are really recreation, from
the British time frame. All the current doors are of one and a similar plan. A
round street, privately known as the "alang" runs ideal around the
old city, yet inside the stronghold divider and not outside it as in like
manner on other old urban areas. Be that as it may, a cutting edge round street
likewise keeps running on the external side of the city. The walled city is thickly
populated with tight avenues, winding paths and old style houses fabricated
very near each other. As Multan was before an inside for wood cutting, some of
its old houses have great examples of woodwork on their windows and entryways.
Being a recorded city, Multan is full
to tombs, mosques and different landmarks of Muslim beginning. Aside from
verifiable structures, there are two different protests in the city which have
practically come to be viewed as landmarks because of their superb workmanship.
These are the two immense, cut wood "Tazzia models", which are the
best examples of craftsmanship.
Multan, it is not astonishing, is
otherwise called "Mandinatu-Aulya", the city of holy people. It has
tombs, mosques and "Khanqahs" (hospices) of holy people. Keeping in
view their chronicled esteem, inestimable fine art, design style and
craftsmanship included, every one of these landmarks are wonderfully enlivened
and ornamented with blue titles, fresco-paints and mosaic work, and some with
the delightful and alleviating Kashi and Naqashi work for which Multan is
acclaimed.
Multan was an imperative city even
before Islam however it picked up significance after the entry of Islam.
Consequently the greater part of the specialties and landmarks of aesthetic
esteem are plainly affected by Islam.
THE HISTORICAL TOMBS
The historical backdrop of Multan's
Muslim engineering starts with the Muslim triumph. Little is thought about the
design of Multan before the eleventh century, however somewhere else in
Pakistan we can follow the beginning of Muslim engineering from the eighth century
A.D. Amid the thirteenth and fourteenth century, another style of design was
presented for funerary dedications of the Muslims in and around Multan the
style start with the tomb of Baha-ud-commotion Zakariya and finished in the
catacomb of Shah Rukn al-Din Rukn-I-Alam, which has been respected as "one
the most amazing commemoration ever raised in the respect of the dead.
These two catacombs served as
impeccable models for the future design. The engineers kept on copying them for
well more than six hundred years. The fame of the style did not decrease
notwithstanding when the more refined and flawless Mughal style of Rukn-e-Alam
is the excellent tomb of Sultan Ali Akbar at Suraji Miani close Multan, which
was raised in the Mughal period (992/1585).
A portion of the normal components of
all mausolea in Multan are their decreasing dividers, single vault and the
coated tile improvement on the outside. Another far reaching highlight is a
wooden covering, over the primary effortlessness. Embellished with cutting and
barbecues, the roof of the covering is constantly enhanced with coated tiles of
various themes. Every so often the flame broils are made of marble, ornamented
with delightful geometric plans.
THE TOMB OF SAINT BAHAUDDIN ZAKARYA
Remaining at the northeastern side of
the old fortress which is arranged on the high hill, is the tomb of
Shikh-al-Kabir, Bahauddin Abu Mohammed Zakariya Al-Qurashi. The tomb possesses
the focal point of a limitless oval open zone measuring 260 feet N.S by 203
feet E.W and is encased by an edges block divider. It has two primary entryways
one on the east and the other on the West Side. There is a promise of fourteen
"Hujras" on the north for the "Zaireen".
The tomb was totally destroyed amid the
attack of Multan in1848 AD by the British armed force however was repaired
instantly by Makhdum Shah Mahmud. There is no unique engraving on the body of
the tomb to demonstrate the date of its development and the resulting repairs.
In any case, from the way that here falsehoods the immense Shaikh Bahauddin
Zakariya who had raised it himself amid his prime time, one might say that it
has a place with the early many years of the thirteenth century. The Shaikh
passed on the seventh of Safar (661/21 December 1262).
THE TOMB OF SHAH RUKN-E-ALAM
The catacomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam is
likewise arranged on the stronghold hill. The Shaikh was the child of Pir
Sadar-Al-Din Arif conceived at Multan on the ninth of Friday Ramazan 649/26
November 1251. He was the grandson and successor of Shaikh Baha-Al-Din
Zakariya.
Shaikh Rukn-i-Alam (Rukn-al-Din) kicked
the bucket on the seventh of Friday (735/3 Jamadial-Awwal, January 1335). He
was covered in the catacomb of his granddad, as per his own particular will.
After at some point, be that as it may, his pine box was exchanged to the
present catacomb. It was built, by prevalent thinking, by Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq
(1340-1350) amid the times of his governorship of Depalpur, yet was given by
Feruz Shah Tughluq to the descendents of Shah Rukn-I-Alam for the last's
internment. The sepulcher of Rukn-I-Alam has been appreciated by the explorers
and recorders as well as by the workmanship students of history and paleologist
who composed the design history of the subcontinent.
The tomb was based on octagon arrange,
90 ft in distance across with dividers which are 414 ft high and 13.3 ft thick.
The sepulcher was built with smoldered blocks and bolstered by timber
surrounding, and embellished with tile confronted blocks and wood pillars. The
entire structure is isolated into three stories. Throughout the second story is
a littler Octagon, leaving a narrow3 entry all around the place, above which
stands a hemispherical arch. As the tomb is remaining on a high manufactured
hill, it is obvious from around 45 kilometers. The greater part of its examples
are geometric-made by masterminding the coated tiles-and a living declaration
to innovative virtuoso of their originators. The building is designed with some
flower and in addition calligraphic examples. In the 1970s the tomb was
completely repaired and remodeled by the Auqaf Department of the Punjab
Government. The whole sparkling coated inside is the consequence of new tiles
and brickwork done by the Kashigars of Multan. This obviously shows the
abilities and mastery of the nearby specialists.
THE TOMB OF SHAH SABZWARI
The tomb of Shah Shamas Sabzwari is
arranged close to the Aam Khas Bagh, about a fourth of a mile on the east of
the antiquated port on the high bank of the old bed of the Ravi which is
currently loaded with a huge number of cutting edge structures. Shah shams
Sabzwari was an observed "Ismaili Dai". Almost no is thought about
Shams Sabzari's life. As per a well known legend, he landed in Multan at the
season of Shaikh Baha-al-Din Zakariya. He inhaled his last at 111 years old
years in 675/1276 and was covered in Multan.
The primary elements of the tomb are
like those of the city's other real tombs. It has a square lobby in an Octagon
shape bested by a high arch. There is a verandah all-round the grave-load, with
fine curves in each side and a solitary access to the lobby. In the yard, which
is at a lower level than that of the verandah, there is little mosque. Like
other adorned tombs of Multan, this tomb is likewise ornamented with Kaashi
tile work and Naqashi work. Yet, as of late a fire harmed its passage truly.
THE TOMB OF SHAH YOUSUF GARDEZI
This popular tomb is arranged close to
the Bohar Gate. Its building is very not the same as the city's different
tombs, with a rectangular lobby and a level, arch less rooftop. The lobby,
which has a little entryway towards the end of one of its more extended sides,
is built in a major compound. On one side of the compound stands the huge lobby
of an imambargah. The tomb's available building is a totally remodeled one. The
rectangular building is completely secured with the blue Multani tiles,
improved with endless flower and geometric examples organized in extensive
rectangles, square and fringe. The horizon is a smaller than usual copy of a
post's parapet and has a line of curves with fringes brought up in alleviation.
Underneath the parapet divider runs a nonstop calligraphic verge on every one
of the four sides. The standard of this calligraphy, nonetheless, is not high.
Just blue keeping in mind have been utilized, the themes incorporate a rich
assortment of botanical examples.
THE MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN ALI AKBAR
This tomb is arranged in Suraj Miani, a
territory in the northwest of the antiquated city. Sultan Ali Akbar was a holy
person of Islamic request, and was the considerable grandson of Shams-Sabzwari.
This is the main epigraphical prove accessible about the holy person on the
façade of the catacomb, be that as it may, the tomb is a critical commitment
towards the reception digestion and spread of Multani design where practically
every normal for the Rukn-I-Alam's tomb including the octagonal arrangement,
decreasing turrets, the three storied very much adjusted and congruous rise,
decorated with beautiful tiles revetment, and screened window opening, his some
even too sideways so additionally perceptible. It is a result of this that the
landmark has been nicknamed the "Little Rukn-i-Alam". It has coated
style configuration utilized by accessible space. The tomb remains on a six
feet high square stage.
Tomb of Hafiz Muhammad Jamal
This tomb is arranged close Aamkhas Bagh
encompassed with thick substantial mass of little blocks. The primary square
building incorporates an expansive lobby, encompassing veranda and a Majlis
Khana.
The tomb was inherent nineteenth
century amid the rule of Ranjit Singh ( 1810). The land for the tomb was given
by Sawanmal, the legislative leader of Multan back then. The principle building
was developed under the superb.
