

BIBI PAK DAMAN (CHASTE LADY)
Bibi Pak Daman is the mausoleum of Ruqayyah Bint Ali, located in Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. It holds the graves of six ladies from Muhammad’s household (Ahl Al-Bayt). Ruqayyah Bint Ali Ibn Abu Talib was the daughter of Muhammad’s cousin and son in Law Ali Ibn Abu Talib with his wife Sahba Bint Rabi’a Al Talibiyya. Ruqayah Bint Ali was the half Sister of Al-Abbas Ibn Ali and also the wife of Muslim Ibn Aqeel.
Others are said to be Muslim Ibn Aqil’s sister and daughters. Its said that these ladies came here aafter the event of the battle of Karbala on the 10th day of the month of Muharram in 61 AH (October 10, AD 380).
Bibi Pak Daman, which means the chaste lady, is the collective name of the six ladies believed to interred at the mausoleum, through it is also (mistakenly) popularly used to refer to the personage of Ruqayyah Bint Ali alone. They were among the women who brought Islam to South Asia, preaching and engaging in missionary activity in the environs of Lahore. It is said that Data Ganj Bakhsh, considered as great Sufi saint of the south Asia, was himself a devotee of the Bibi Pak Daman shrine and received holy knowledge from the auspicioyus shrine.