Dargah Hazrat Roshan Ali Shah and Miyan Saheb Imambara The historic Miyan Saheb Imambara located in Miyan Bazaar is famous because of the great Darvesh Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah Alaihirhaman. There is a tradition of celebrating Urs-e-Pak by the local devotees on the 5th of the Islamic month Rajab. Darvesh Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah was a resident of Bukhara. He came from Bukhara to Delhi and then to Gorakhpur during the reign of Mohammad Shah. Detailed light has been thrown on his life in the book “Mashaikh-e-Gorakhpur”. It is written in the book that he was always engaged in the worship of Allah. He loved Ahl-e-Bait a lot. He established the Imambara for the Niyaz-Fatiha of Hazrat Syedna Imam Hussain Radiyallahu Taala Anhu and his companions. Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah used to wear a special type of dress, white turban and white sheet. He had a habit of wearing wooden sandals. He neither ate meat nor salt. He used to sit on a mat. He used to ate food cooked by Hindus. He knew Persian and Urdu but always signed in Hindi. He kept a fire near him which was always burning. He was punctual in offering Namaz. He was a Abid Darvesh. He spent generously for the repair of mosque, bridge, well, Imambara, some place for stay for travelers, school, 11th Sharif, Eid Milad-un-Nabi, Muharram, Niyaz-Fatiha of elders, Urs, helping orphans and widows. He spent his entire life in the path of God.He kept practising Zikr and Fikr. He never stepped out of the Imambara. A gathering of Fakirs, Darvesh and Talibane Haq was always present here. He spent his entire life in worship and service. He inherited a locality named Dawood-Chak from his maternal grandfather in Gorakhpur. He built an Imambara here due to which the name of this place changed from Dawood-Chak to Imamganj. Due to the fame of Miyan Saheb, it came to be known as Miyan Bazaar. There is a famous incident that Nawab Asif-ud-Daula of Awadh was very fond of hunting. While hunting on an elephant, he came to the dense forests of Gorakhpur. Darvesh Roshan Ali Shah was sitting in this dense forest with a dhuni (fire). During the hunting, the Nawab saw an old man sitting without clothes in the biting cold with a dhuni (fire). He put his precious doshala (shawl) on him. The darvesh threw the shawl in the dhuni. Seeing this, the Nawab got angry. On this Roshan Ali Shah put a tong in the ashes of the Dhuni and took out many precious shawls and threw them towards the Nawab. Seeing this, the Nawab understood that this was not an ordinary person but a saint of Allah. Nawab Asif-ud-Daula immediately got down from the elephant and apologized. The Imambara was established by Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah in 1717 AD. The Markazi Imambara was built in six acres by Nawab Asif-ud-Daula in 1796 AD. The Nawab and his Begum gave a gold and silver Tajia. Apart from this, he gave a jagir. Hazrat Roshan Ali died in 1818 AD. But your name will always be famous for your deeds. The hookah, tongs, wooden sandals, teeth and utensils etc. of Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah are still present in the Imambara. Hazrat Syed Roshan Ali Shah had lit a fire in a place in the Imambara. It is still burning for hundreds of years. A fair is held here during the month of Muharram. During this time the splendor of this place is worth seeing. On normal days (every Jumerat, Friday) also the devotees visit the shrine and read Fatiha. Especially on Jumerat people from Hindu-Muslim community visit the shrine and pray to Allah through the medium of Hazrat Roshan Ali.
