Practicing Success
Read the passage and answer the questions : After praising the one God … this lowly faqira (humble soul) Jahanara ... went from the capital Agra in the company of my great father (Emperor Shah Jahan) towards the pure region of incomparable Ajmer … I was committed to this idea, that every day in every station I would perform two cycles of optional prayer … |
On which day the Mughal princess Jahanara attained the happiness of pilgrimage? |
On Monday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan. On Tuesday, the third of the blessed month of Ramzan. On Thursday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan. On Saturday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan. |
On Thursday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan. |
The correct answer is Option (3) → On Thursday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan. As per the passage; On Thursday, the fourth of the blessed month of Ramzan, I attained the happiness of pilgrimage to the illuminated and the perfumed tomb. With an hour of daylight remaining, I went to the holy sanctuary and rubbed my pale face with the dust of that threshold. From the doorway to the blessed tomb I went barefoot, kissing the ground. Having entered the dome, I went around the light-filled tomb of my master seven times Finally, with my own hand I put the finest quality of itar on the perfumed tomb of revered one, and having taken off the rose scarf that I had on my head, I placed it on the top of the blessed tomb. |