Kadam Rosul Dargah

Kadam Rasul are shrines, venerated in various parts of the Muslim World, where a stone containing the footprint of the Prophet Muhammad (Sm) is supposedly kept. Traditionally, Muslims have believed that whenever Prophet Muhammad (Sm) trod on a rock his foot had left an imprint. But such beliefs in prophetic miracles, have never had the sanction of orthodoxy. Perhaps these footprints in stone, being portable, were brought back by pilgrims from Makka. They are venerated in shrines known as Kadam Sharif or Kadam Rasul Allah. Shrines such as Kadam Rasul have antecedents in both Judaism and Christianity, while in India the tradition of worshipping of sacred footprints goes back to Buddhist and Hindu times. The earliest and most famous of the footprint-shrines is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which marks the place from where the Prophet (Sm) took off on his Night Journey (mir'aj). Before he set off, his foot is supposed to have left a depression on the rock. Other footprints are preserved in Damascus, Cairo and Istambul. In Bangladesh the best known Kadam Rasul is that of Nabiganj, on the eastern bank of the River Lakhya, opposite Narayanganj.