Yrgyzbai-ata Mausoleum

After recovering, in gratitude for the healing, Kunanbai presented the healer with a mare with a foal and said: “If Allah allows, with this mare you will not know the need.” And indeed, until the end of his days, Yrgyzbai-ata did not need anything. According to legend, after becoming an elder and feeling the approach of his death day, Yrgyzbai-ata bequeathed to his descendants to bury him on a hill next to the Kumista spring. They say that even after his death, the doctor continued to help people. Once a certain man named Shynybai was wandering in the steppes near the grave of Yrgyzbai and spent the night there. In a dream, he saw his three recently deceased children and began to mourn them. The Aksakal was already old and did not hope that he would still have offspring. But then the good doctor Yrgyzbai Doskhanauly appeared, who assured that Shynybai would soon have children. Inspired by the joyful prophecy, Shynybai calmed down and believed in the possibility of happiness for himself and his wife. Before dawn he left there with hope in his heart, and then, in order for people to remember the wonderful national doctor as long as possible, he erected a monument on his grave and a stone fence around it. Soon the Almighty granted Shynybai three sons. Almost two centuries have passed since then. Many stories about the secrets of the great elder have been preserved in the people’s memory. It is claimed that he treated people with plants growing in the Tarbagatai Mountains, including ephedra, which has been known since ancient times. Scientists learned that this herb tones the cardiovascular system of a person only in the 20-30 years of the last century.

Today, hundreds of people interested in the history of their ancestors come to the mausoleum of Yrgyzbai-ata to pay tribute to the famous healer. People kneel there and say prayers addressed to God, for the soul of the healer, for themselves. In the understanding of the Eastern Turkic people, graves have always been the corner of the earth that disposed to thoughts about life, eternity and the soul. Many interesting things are told about this sacred place. They say that it attracts people passing by with its special energy, since the miraculous influence of Yrgyzbai-ata is still felt. Some people believe that to heal the soul and body, you need not only to visit the grave of a famous healer, but also to spend the night in this place where prophetic dreams are dreamed. There are also certain rules: spending the night in the ritual rooms for sleeping, it is necessary to cleanse the soul of evil thoughts, and you need to leave before the first rays of the morning sun flashed. The mausoleum of Yrgyzbai-ata is under state protection. Nearby there is a museum with exhibits from all over the world, and a library with thousands of ancient books, including medical treatises by the famous Arab doctor Ibn Sina, written in the XVII-XVIII centuries. Nearby there are natural springs where you can drink, wash, collect clean water and therapeutic mud.

Yrgyzbai-ata possessed not only medical knowledge and skills, but also a warm, sensitive heart full of love for people. People say about people like him: “To a kind person and someone else’s illness to the heart”, “To a kind person — eternal memory”. His life is a worthy example for everyone who wants to be a good person worthy of their outstanding ancestors.