Offerings to Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilaniir Jilan

Rana Sajid Hussain

A large number of Pakistani devotees prepare to drop symbolic paper boats, offerings to Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilaniir Jilani, as a way of giving thanks after their desire to give birth to a son was fulfilled, into the water during an annual ceremony on the banks of the River Ravi in Lahore. Annual ceremony to commemorate a centuries-old tale, that Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani raised a sunken ship carrying a wedding party, at the pleading of the groom’s mother, saving all the occupants was observed on the banks of River Ravi.