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 … |
Identify the gestures that Jahanara records to indicate her devotion to the Sufi saint. |
She went wearing footwear. She went around the tomb three times only. She put finest quality itar on the tomb. She visited the shrine after Ramzan. |
She put finest quality itar on the tomb. |
The correct answer is Option (3) → She put finest quality itar on the tomb. 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. |