The tomb of Sheikh Abolhassan Kharghani is located in the village of Ghale No, Kharqan, Bastam. Bastam is one of the environs of Shahroud in Semnan province. The architecture of this building belongs to the contemporary period and its exterior is decorated with glazed bricks. Except for an altar, there is nothing left of what is related to the past. This beautiful altar, which is a remnant of a patriarchal mosque, is the most important historical part of this tomb. In this altar, this sentence is written in Persian: "Ali Sheikh Quds said: The Qibla is five. The Kaaba is the Qibla of the believers. Beit al-Ma'mour is the Qibla of the angels. The throne is the Qibla of the supplicants and the truth is the Qibla of the gentlemen and friends.”
Sheikh Abolhassan Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Salman Kharqani or Ali ibn Ahmad, the great mystic of the fourth and fifth centuries AH, is one of the most brilliant figures of Iranian mysticism. he excelled in the liberal thinking, populism, humanism, and high mystical thinking. He was born in the year 351 or 352 AH in the village of Kharqan. His tomb in Kharqan is now the shrine of his devotees.
The words and deeds of this Iranian cosmopolitan mystic, who lived in Kharqan Qomes (Kumesh) in the second half of the fifth century AH, have always been studied by mystics, poets, thinkers and researchers for nearly a thousand years.
The History has shown that Sheikh Abu Saeed Abu al-Khair, the famous mystic, and Abu Ali Sina, the famous philosopher, and Nasser Khosrow Ghobadiani were Iranian poets and thinkers who lived at the same time with Kharghani. Also, Khajeh Abdullah Ansari was one of the Sheikh's distinguished students. Bayazid Bastami, one of the prominent mystics of Iran, had announced his birth more than one hundred years before Kharghani’s birth; It is narrated that Sheikh Bayazid visited the village once a year, where the graves of the martyrs were located. As he was passing by Kharqan, he was standing and breathing, and his disciples asked him, "Sheikh, we do not hear anything." He said: Yes, I can smell a man from this region; A man whose name is Ali and whose nickname is Abu al-Hassan, he will be far ahead of me. Rumi, the great mystic of the seventh century AH, has arranged the story of the spiritual connection between Bayazid Bastami and Sheikh Abolhassan Kharghani and his famous prophecy after one hundred and seventeen years in the fourth book of his Masnavi book, entitled Revelation of the Heart. It is said that Sheikh Abolhassan Kharghani had written on the entrance of his Khanghah: "Whoever enters this house, give him bread and do not ask about his faith. For whoever is worthy of a Soul granted by the Almighty, is certainly worthy of Bol-Hasan’s bread. This beautiful and eloquent sentence is also engraved on the facade of his tomb today.
It is also narrated that the sheikh said: There were two brothers and a mother, every night one brother served God and the other served his mother. The person who was worshiping God was happy with his service and asked his brother to worship that night as well. The brother accepted and he lays before God all the night. He dreamed a voice saying to him: “we have mercy on your brother and we have forgiven you for him. He said, "but, I serve God, and he serve his mother. How you considered him superior to me?". “because we don’t need what you do, but your mother needs your brother to serve her”. In any case, Sheikh Abolhassan Kharghani is one of the few mystics who proclaimed the principle of all-penetrating love and considered serving the needy people as the goal of his existence. Some of his speeches are mentioned in the book of Noorul Uloom and also Attar Neyshabouri mentioned him in the book Tazkereh Al-Awliya. It is narrated that Sheikh Abolhassan Kharghani had domesticated two lions and a snake and the lions were carrying his firewood to their destination. The statue of two lions sitting next to the statue of Abolhassan have been installed on the entrance steps of Kharghani's tomb, based on this story.
The tomb of Sheikh Abolhassan is located 35 km north of Shahroud. It is like an Iranian garden with a blue water flowing through it and it is a pleasant place for travelers to explore. Other attractions near this tomb include Bayazid Bastami Mosque, Bastam Mosque, Cloud Forest, Mojen Waterfall and Tuskistan Road.