{"id":549,"date":"2009-12-21T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/12\/raudat-tahera.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:30:59","slug":"raudat-tahera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/12\/raudat-tahera.html","title":{"rendered":"Raudat Tahera at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/abde\/4202239760\/\" title=\"Raudat Tahera by abde, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2626\/4202239760_08575a6ef4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Raudat Tahera\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the mausoleum of the late 51st Dai ul Mutlaq, Syedna Taher Saifuddin AQ, and the focal point of Bhindi Bazaar, Mumbai. Upon the four interior walls is inscribed the entirety of the Holy Qur&#8217;an, in gold.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Bhindi Bazaar area is due for a <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/Bohris-to-redevelop-Bhendi-Bazaar\/articleshow\/4660363.cms\">massive renovation<\/a> and reconstruction, funded entirely by his son and successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumineen.org\/archive\/publications\/oup\/syedna.html\">Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin<\/a> TUS. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bharatbytes.com\/2009\/08\/how-bhendi-bazaar-will-look-in-2014\/\">architectural drawings<\/a> of Bhindi Bazaar in 2014 are breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>(see more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/abde\/sets\/72157623040387226\/\">my photos here<\/a> &#8211; I will be adding many more).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the mausoleum of the late 51st Dai ul Mutlaq, Syedna Taher Saifuddin AQ, and the focal point of Bhindi Bazaar, Mumbai. 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The entire Bhindi Bazaar area is due for a massive renovation and reconstruction, funded entirely by his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[186,138,343,25,101,26],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressions","tag-ashara","tag-india","tag-mumbai","tag-news","tag-photos","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raudat Tahera at night - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raudat Tahera at night - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the mausoleum of the late 51st Dai ul Mutlaq, Syedna Taher Saifuddin AQ, and the focal point of Bhindi Bazaar, Mumbai. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}