বাংলা 
English 
His full name is Fakir Nijamuddin Shah, his nickname Nijam; he was born in Cheuria in the Bengali year 1329. At the age of twenty-one or twenty-two he worked at Kushtia's Mohini Mill - his work was at the looms.
When he got leave from the mill he would walk on foot to Lalon's Akhra and sit listening to the songs. The deeper meaning of the songs awakened his soul and made him forget the anguish of worldly existence. In his view, Lalon's songs bring humility with their force; it is song that opens his heart, and through song alone one knows what is dead and what is alive. To him the essence of a song is greater than its melody.
His initiation guru, Fakir Kokil Shah, was unmarried; childless Kokil's serving companion was named Jashodha Fakirani, and he spent the whole of his inherited property on the service of the saints. Forty-five years ago, Fakir Nijamuddin received khelafat, and from that day he closed the account of family life and withdrew from procreation. He has long kept himself inside the chamber of Lalon's mausoleum.
Asked about his devotion to Lalon, he says
"Look - for him alone I have offered up my whole life and youth."
Closing his eyes he can see his guru Kokil Shah clearly. Nijamuddin eats sparingly, walks barefoot; age has weighed him down into his eighty-fifth year. He has no craving other than Lalon - he does not even take tea.
Asked what he does all day inside Lalon's mausoleum chamber, he says -
Keep saying it always, thus,
La ilaha illallah - there is no god but God.
