Father of Hazrat Sultan Bahu (RA),

The father of Hazrat Sultan Bahu (RA), Hazrat Bazid Muhammed (RA) was from this A'wan tribe. He was a titleholder and an office bearer in the court of the Mughals. He was a pious and devout scholar and a strict follower of the Shariat. He later married Hazrat Bibi Rasti (RA) who belonged to the same social class of the same family.

Hazrat Bibi Rasti (RA) was a devout, pious and saintly wife. Her piety had a marked influence on her husband, so much so, that the love of Allah kindled in his heart. This fire of love forced and compelled him to give up his government service, and passed the rest of his life in the service of Allah. He settled in Multan.

Hazrat Bibi Rasti (RA) joined her husband in Multan. In the mean time, as a recognition of his services, the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, conferred on Hazrat Bazid Muhammed (RA) an estate in the vicinity of the small town of Shorkhote in District Jung, Punjab Province.

Hazrat Bazid Muhammed (RA) and Hazrat Bibi Rasti (RA) settled and spend the rest of their lives in Shorkhote.

Hazrat Bazid Muhammed (RA), the father of Hazrat Sultan Bahu passed away in Shorkhote when Sultan Bahu (RA) was still a child. Hazrat Bazid was a Hafiz of the Quran and a Qari. A handwritten copy of the Quran transcribed by himself was last seen in the family of Hazrat Sheikh Talha (RA). (They probably still have it in there possession). The shrine of Hazrat Bazid Muhammed (RA) is in Shorkhote situated near the tomb of Sheikh Talha (RA). Hazrat Bibi Rasti (RA), the Saintly mother of Hazrat Sultan(RA) lived for many years after the passing away of her husband. When Sultan Bahu (RA) went to Delhi to meet Hazrat Sayyid Abdur-Rahman Qadiri (RA) in Delhi, Ma Bibi Rasti was still alive. At that time Sultan Bahu (RA) was fourty years old. At many places in his writings he eulogises his Saintly mother asking Allah to bless her. In one of his Persian couplets, he refers to her devotion to truth as follows:

`Blesses of God for Rasti be
For with truth is gifted she'

She lies buried besides her husband in Shorkhote. A mosque stands not too far away from the tomb. Further down east, at a considerable distance from their tomb stands a rest house to accommodate the pilgrims who frequent the town.