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       A distinguished water mosque of Shikarpur

Shikarpur is a historical city and considered as the Paris of Sindh and it is famous for many things and it also has a unique status for prominent Dargahs and Dargah Amrote Sharif of Shikarpur is also one of them which is being considered as the rare Dargah of Sindh.

Syed Taj Mahmood Shah Amroti, was a distinguished spiritual leader of Amrote Sharif and he was the very first person who translated Holy Quran into Sindhi language and described every word of Holy Quran with details.

The Quran Pak was first published from Amrote Sharif and it is now being published under the name "Taj Company Limited" from Lahore and has completed a century.

Syed Taj Mahmood Shah Amroti son of Abdul Qadir Shah Alias ​​Bhoral Shah was born in 1858 in the small village of Khairpur Mir “Deewani” and after receiving spiritual education he moved to the small town of Shikarpur Amrote Sharif, on the orders of his religious leader Hafiz Muhammad Siddique Bharchondi to serve humanity in the small town of Shikarpur.

Then he founded Madarsa there, a center of spiritual education, after which Madarsa succeeded in securing a high position in Sindh besides Syed Taj Mehmood Shah built a small mosque near Amrote Sharif on the stone throw distance from Madarsa for meditation, now known as the Water Mosque, local settlements call it the Water mosque because it is located in the center of the Irrigation Canal, the Water mosque is still in the middle of the center of the canal.

At least 10 prayers and 01 Pesh-Imam may offer the Namaz at the same time in the Water mosque and it has electricity facility and in addition, the mosque has two windows on both sides of the canal and one main entrance gate.

A small bridge is built on seven adjacent pillars near the Water mosque to reach and it is about 30ft long and 3 ft wide.

Syed Waliullah Shah Amroti, grandson of Syed Taj Mehmood Shah Amroti, said this water mosque has a good history and is a symbol of our spiritual elder and our leader as we used to do all the work of reviving the mosque in self-help ways.

A number of tourists, from parts of the country and abroad, used to visit the Water mosque and offer payers there.

It also refers to Syed Taj Mehmood Shah Amroti "sooner or later what he says must happen, however, there are many miracles performed by Dargah Amrote Sharif.

At least 7500 people, who came to Dargah to embrace Islam without fear and pressure with their consent, and embraced Islam in the hands of Syed Taj Mehmood Shah Amroti.

Syed Taj Mehmood Shah Amroti was the founding member of the Jamiat Ul Sindh chapter and delivered a presidential address at the Khilafat Conference held in Jacobabad against the British government in which he passed a so-called "non-cooperation" resolution passed unanimously by a coalition against the British government in 1920.

Molana Ubedullah Sindhi [RA] was prominent among the people who did his work for at least 07 years in Dargah Amrote Sharif while living in Dargah Amrote Sharif, Syed Taj Mehmood Shah Amroti founded a library and printing press called Mehmood Ul Mutabieeu, from which the Holy Quran also published.

Syed Taj Muhammad Shah Amroti died on 5 November 1929 in Amrote Sharif and was buried near his Dargah.

At the time, Syed Siraj Ahmed Shah is the custodian of the shrine. 

''It is not the power of a shrine to illuminate a saint but the saint who preached, with such loyalty and sincerity that even after death his teachings are celebrated, observed and deemed endlessly''.