History

Sultan ul Arifien Hazrat Khwaja Syed Sha Baba Fakhruddin (RA) was a great sufi saint of 12 th century. Before coming to Penukonda, he was the king of Sistan and Shahpur in Iran. He was a true follower of Islam who renounced the world for the sake of Allah. His Murshid (spiritual guide) was Tabr-e-Aalam Baadshah Nathar Vali, who himself was a king and who also had renounced the world in a place called Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu). After serving Hazarath for some 24 years at his Murshid's command, Baba Fakruddin left for Penukonda in order to preach.
Hazrat Baba Fakhruddin (R.A) was given a miswak twig by his spiritual guru to identify the location of his stay, and was commanded to stay in the place where this twig blooms, a night when Sarkar Baba Fakhruddin (R.A) was searching for a place to settle, he entered Penukonda, as a practice he stuck the twig in ground and immersed himself in prayer and in the morning he found the twig bloomed and decided to make the same place his abode. The miswak twig planted some 800 years ago is still green today in Penukonda dargah.

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