Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj Sahib, after the death of his mother, had spent some years in the forest. Subsequently, he left it and went and stayed in his native town Rohri. Evidently, the people of Rohri had to be blessed abundantly by this holy being. Even in the town, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj Sahib did not cover his body. Three of his female disciples soon persuaded him to wear something. "Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj", they pleaded, "you are now living not in a forest but in a town where people flock to you for your blessings. Among the seekers are also women. Be gracious to cover your body!" Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj listened to their pleas and started wearing a long kurta.
To Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj would come both the Hindus and the Muslims for his blessings. He thus served alike the Hindus and the Muslims whom he regarded as his children. God was One. Ishwar and Allah were but different names of the Multi-named One. Some rich fanatic Muslims could not bear to see their Muslim brethren going to a Hindu fakir. They hatched plots against Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj and conspired to have him assassinated. All their attempts failed miserably. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj worshipped the One Divine Father. This Divine Father came to his rescue everytime an attempt was made on his life. Once some goondas, armed with pistols, bricks and stones, went to attack him, but as soon as they tried to strike, they were amazed to see that they could not do so as their hands got paralyzed. The ruffians realised that they had come to kill a man of God. They repented on the spot, apologised to him and begged for his forgiveness.
Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj would know and tell in advance whenever any calamity was to befall Rohri and the people were to undergo suffering and hardship. He would then exercise his yogic powers and pray to the Almighty to avert the impending calamity.
It was on the night of May 30, 1935, when Dayaldas, in the company of his friends went to have a darshan of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj and seek his blessings. They had gone there to get his benedictions so that they might pass at the Matriculation Examination. The result of the Matriculation Examination was to be declared the following day - May 31. When Dayaldas and his friends reached the house of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj they found him greatly ruffled and rattled. His eyes were blood-shot. He kept on crying loudly: "Save Rohri! Lord! Protect Rohri!"
Dayaldas and his friends learnt from those present that this cry: "Save Rohri!" had started from Wednesday, May 29, from 9 p.m. Since that day and hour, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj had not had a wink of sleep. For full fifty-five hours, these words were on his lips. The neighbours, too, endorsed this and said that, because of the shouts and cries of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, they had not been able to get sleep. At 2:30 a.m., Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, while uttering these words: "Save Rohri!" in a sorrowful and dreadful tone, fell from the semi-broken roof of his house. Thank God, he was not hurt in the least. As May 31 saw the light of the day, he suddenly ceased crying: "Save Rohri!" at 3:30 a.m. and thereafter became quiet.
Morning dawned. Telegrams kept pouring in from 9 a.m., conveying the sad and shocking tidings that Quetta had been rocked by a severe earthquake. Quetta was at a distance of two hundred miles from Rohri. At 3:30 a.m., Quetta had experienced terrible quakes and tremors and people in thousands had perished and hundreds of houses had crumbled. The loss was simply devastating. Most of those who had survived had become homeless and shelterless. Owing to the prayers of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, the residents of Rohri were saved. The calamity, which was to befall Rohri, had been averted by the boundless mercy and grace of its dervish. Rohri was not allowed to suffer any loss. After this earthquake, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj came to be regarded as a saint and dervish of a high order.
Ten months later, the people of Rohri were celebrating Chetichand in April 1936 in Nandi Khabar. Several women and children participated in this mela. In the evening, clouds collected all of a sudden and, not only unseasonal rain poured down but even heavy hailstones fell. Each hailstone waighed a quarter of a seer or more.
Exactly at that moment, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj was supplicating to God. He stood on the roof of his dilapidated house and was saying: "Lord! Put a stop to this! Save the women and the children, otherwise all will perish. Do not be so cruel!" Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj then cast his glance at the skies. What was there in his gaze? Rain and hailstones ceased to fall. Women and children rushed home. Thus Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj saved the women and the children of Rohri from the jaws of death, even as Sri Krishna put an end to Aghasar Rakshasa drafted by Kansa to kill cowherds, cows and calves.
Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj could not bear to see his people suffer. His heart overflowed with such immense love and sympathy for his fellow-men that he bore upon himself calamities which would otherwise have befallen Rohri. He would perform one miracle or the other and save his people.
In the months of May-June 1938, rumours spread and brahmins and pandits prophesised in Rohri that just as an earthquake had shaken Quetta in 1935, similarly an earthquake would strike Rohri and bury it. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj had saved Rohri in 1935 but this time the destruction was considered certain. People got so panicky that some kept fasts, other vigils. Some went to pray in durbars and temples of goddesses, others invoked the Daryah Shah of Rohri, the God of water. Some read scriptures, others chanted nam-kirtan. Men and women offered fervent prayers that their town Rohri be saved. Forty days of penance and prayer passed by. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj lay reclining under the roof of his old dilapidated house, rapt up in thoughts of the Divine. Scorpions, poisonous snakes and insects crawled around him.
It was mid July. Suddenly, one day, at the early hour of dawn, the house of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, along with the roof, came crumbling down with a thud. A mound of rubble and mud had formed while Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj lay buried underneath. He was quite unaware of it as he was in samadhi, oblivious of the world. Dhanibai, who happened to observe this dreadful sight, shouted at the top of her voice. Her cries attracted the attention of the neighbours. Men, children and some youths, who were members of the Prem Mandali, soon collected at the spot. The white hair of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj were visible as he lay underneath the debris. Gently moving away the mud, rubble and wooden beams to one side, Dhanibai, the mother of Relu and Amalrai Bhatia extricated Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj was unhurt but for a few scratches. The mother of Relu at once applied an ointment to these scratches.
People, who had seen Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj lying under the heap of mud, rubble and wooden beams, declared that he had borne upon himself the calamity that was otherwise to befall Rohri. His house had been destroyed while he himself had been buried inside. There was great commotion. Men, women and children came rushing and quite a crowd collected in a short time. When they saw Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj being extricated out of the heap beneath which he lay buried, there was no limit to their astonishment. They were all the more surprised to see him unhurt and safe, immersed in the worship of God. Doctors, who rushed to the spot, had to return at once. People observed that, even as the heap was being removed to one side, there was a big chunk of mud. Underneath it lay intact even the cup and the saucer and the burning lamp of Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj was verily a man of miracles. He was ever under the protecting wings of Higher Powers.
In moments of ecstacy, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj would foretell events of importance. He had forewarned about the calamity of the Quetta earthquake. He even foretold about the assassination of Bhagat Kanwarram.
It was November 3, 1939, when the passenger train which left Dadu, at two in the afternoon, stopped at the Ruk station at 5 p.m. The renowned saint and bhakta Kanwarram was travelling by this train with some of his disciples. The saint was returning after holding religious congregations in Manjhad durbar and Dadu. At the time at which the train reached Ruk, Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj paced to and fro in the Khangah, the durbar of Beydil-Bekas. The mother of Relu was present among the crowd of the devotees at the Khangah. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, all of a sudden, cried out loudly: "Alas! A shot is being fired! Alas! He is dead!" Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj thereafter laughed and remarked "Bhakta shot to death! Strange is Thy leela, O Lord!".
The train reached the Sukkur station late by three to four hours. As soon as it arrived, people learnt the sad and stunning news of the assassination of Bhagat Kanwarram, by some ruffians at the Ruk station. The whole of Sukkur and Rohri, as a mark of respect for Bhagat Kanwarram, observed a total bandh. When Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj had uttered the words: "Alas! A shot is being fired! etc." no one understood their significance but, like a true seer, he had given a hint about the assassination without openly and specifically announcing it.
It was the year 1943. In the month of August, the waters of the Sindhu river kept rising. The water level had risen a foot above the danger mark. As it is, in this season, all the rivers in India are in spate because of the rains. Floods, too, occur in this season. Sind was no exception. Occassionally, floods would occur. This year, sand bags had been placed on both the banks of the river as a safeguard against the floods but the water had overflown them and there was danger of Sukkur and Rohri being inundated. Everyone kept remarking that Sukkur and Rohri would soon be submerged in the flood waters.
Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, who was standing in the durbar of Sain Vasanram, kept gazing at the Sindhu river. Several devotees and aspirants were present there. Soon Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj descended the steps of the durbar and came close to the bank of the river. Pitchers of water were kept near the tomb of Allab Baksh. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj came and stood there. Among those present were also women. All of them followed Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj and stood on the bank. The waters of the river had become turbulent and the raging and roaring of the waves could be heard. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj stood for some time looking at the waters and muttering some words between his lips. He soon uttered a cry, saying: "Rohri shall not sink!" These words hardly escaped his mouth when he suddenly jumped into the river. Owing to the fury of the waters, he came near the pillar of the Landsdowne Bridge close to the bank. Men and women got panicky and shouted at the top of their voices: "Danger! Save! Save!".
Men rushed to the bridge and dropped into the water pitchers and huge logs of wood etc. in the hope that Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj would catch hold of something and save himself. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj, who was all-powerful and could look after himself, did not even care to cast a glance at the objects the people had thrown down. They kept floating and moving with the water. Soon a swift wave arose. It swept Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj towards the midwaters near Zindahpir. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj took two to three handfuls of water, threw these back, and addressed the flood water, said: "Do not exercise force!" Those close to him heard these words: "Run away! You shall not succeed!" Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj soon crossed the river and reached the bank. He then made straight for his house.
Some of the devotees present followed Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj and came to his place. Those who stood on the bank of the river beheld this miracle of the waters receding fast. They were reminded of Child Krishna and how the waters of the Jamuna river had subsided at the touch of his tiny toe while little Krishna was being carried by his father Vasudeva across the Jamuna on his way to Gokul. People soon learnt that the embankment of the Begari Canal at Sukur had been breached and the waters were rushing towards Shikarpur, tending to inundate it. The loss was, indeed, great but Sukkur and Rohri were saved. Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj had been instrumental in saving these two places from a flood and consequent loss and misery.