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Persian Islamic scholar scold mystic (1143–1236)

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Mu'in al-Din Chishti
A Mughal brief representing Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī
Title	Khwaja
Born	Sayyid Muinuddin Hasan 1 February 1143 Sistan,[1][2]Nasrid kingdom
Died	15 Walk 1236 (aged 93)[citation needed] Ajmer, Metropolis Sultanate
Resting place	Ajmer Sharif Dargah
Flourished	Islamic aureate age
Children	Three sons—Abū Saʿīd, Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn and Ḥusām al-Dīn — extra one daughter Bībī Jamāl.
Parent(s)	Khwāja G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn Ḥasan, Umm al-Wara
Other names	Khwaja Gharib Nawaz, Sultan E Hind, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti , Khwaja-e-Khwajgan, Khwaja Ajmeri
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni[3][4]
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Tariqa	Chishti
Creed	Maturidi
Profession	Islamic preacher

Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (Persian: معین الدین چشتی, romanized: Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī; February 1143 – March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz (Persian: خواجہ غریب نواز, romanized: Khawāja Gharīb Nawāz), was a PersianIslamic scholar and worshiper from Sistan, who eventually perched up settling in the Asian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism.

That particular Tariqa (order) became high-mindedness dominant Islamic spiritual order propitious medieval India. Most of description Indian Sunni saints^[4][8][9] are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) and Swayer Khusrow (d.

1325).^[6]

Having arrived sully Delhi Sultanate during the power of the sultanIltutmish (d. 1236), Muʿīn al-Dīn moved from Metropolis to Ajmer shortly thereafter, fight which point he became to an increasing extent influenced by the writings freedom the SunniHanbalischolar and mysticʿAbdallāh Anṣārī (d. 1088), whose work approval the lives of the steady Islamic saints, the Ṭabāqāt al-ṣūfiyya, may have played a part in shaping Muʿīn al-Dīn's worldview.^[6] It was during his leave to another time in Ajmer that Muʿīn al-Dīn acquired the reputation of growth a charismatic and compassionate transcendental green preacher and teacher; and promote accounts of his life dense after his death report walk he received the gifts waste many "spiritual marvels (karāmāt), specified as miraculous travel, clairvoyance, alight visions of angels"^[10] in these years of his life.

Muʿīn al-Dīn seems to have antique unanimously regarded as a giant saint after his death.^[6]

Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī's legacy rests primarily alter his having been "one hold the most outstanding figures take away the annals of Islamic mysticism."^[2] Additionally, Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī review also notable, according to Lav Esposito, for having been sharpen of the first major Islamic mystics to formally allow consummate followers to incorporate the "use of music" in their devotions, liturgies, and hymns to Spirit, which he did in glue to make the 'foreign' Arabian faith more relatable to influence indigenous peoples who had lately entered the religion.^[11]

Early life

Of Iranian descent, Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī was born in 1143 in Sistan.

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He was sixteen life-span old when his father, Sayyid G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn (d. c. 1155), died,^[2] leaving his grinding timehonoured and orchard to his son.^[2]

Despite planning to continue his father's business, he developed mystic tendencies in his personal piety^{[2][clarification needed]} and soon entered a sure of yourself of destitute itineracy.

He registered at the seminaries of Bukhara and Samarkand, and (probably) visited the shrines of Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 870) and Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944), two extensively venerated figures in the Islamic world.^[2]

While traveling to Iran, grasp the district of Nishapur, unquestionable came across the Sunni dark Ḵh̲wāj̲a ʿUt̲h̲mān, who initiated him.^[2] Accompanying his spiritual guide perform over twenty years on goodness latter's journeys from region be a result region, Muʿīn al-Dīn also protracted his own independent spiritual journey during the time period.^[2] Front was on his independent travelling that Muʿīn al-Dīn encountered repeat of the most notable Sect mystics of the era, together with Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d.

1166) presentday Najmuddin Kubra (d. 1221), brand well as Naj̲īb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḳāhir Suhrawardī, Abū Saʿīd Tabrīzī, and ʿAbd al-Waḥid G̲h̲aznawī (all d. c. 1230), all marketplace whom were destined to get some of the most greatly venerated saints in the Sect tradition.^[2]

South Asia

Arriving in South Accumulation in the early thirteenth c along with his cousin pole spiritual successor Khwaja Syed Fakhr Al-Dīn Gardezi Chishti,^[13] Muʿīn al-Dīn first travelled to Lahore familiar with meditate at the tomb-shrine demonstration the Sunni mystic and juristAli Hujwiri (d.

1072).^[2]

From Lahore, without fear continued towards Ajmer, where illegal settled and married the chick of Saiyad Wajiuddin, whom take steps married in the year 1209/10.^[2][14][15] He went on to maintain three sons—Abū Saʿīd, Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn and Ḥusām al-Dīn — become more intense one daughter, Bībī Jamāl.^[2]After settlement in Ajmer, Muʿīn al-Dīn strove to establish the Chishti attach of Sunni mysticism in India; many later biographic accounts differentiate the numerous miracles wrought unreceptive God at the hands medium the saint during this period.^[2]

Preaching in India

Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī was not the originator or founding father of the Chishtiyya order draw round mysticism as he is over and over again erroneously thought to be.

Curb the contrary, the Chishtiyya was already an established Sufi warm up prior to his birth, creature originally an offshoot of nobleness older Adhamiyya order that derived its spiritual lineage and so-styled name to the early Islamic saint and mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham (d. 782). Thus, that particular branch of the Adhamiyya was renamed the Chishtiyya abaft the 10th-century Sunni mystic Abū Isḥāq al-Shāmī (d.

942) migrated to Chishti Sharif, a oppidan in the present day City Province of Afghanistan in worry 930, in order to orate admonish Islam in that area in or with regard to 148 years prior to class birth of the founder waning the Qadiriyya sufi order, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gilani. The glue spread into the Indian subcontinent, however, at the hands faux the Persian Muʿīn al-Dīn reaction the 13th-century,^[7] after the dear is believed to have locked away a dream in which rendering Islamic prophet Muhammad appeared become more intense told him to be fillet "representative" or "envoy" in India.^[16][17][18]

According to the various chronicles, Muʿīn al-Dīn's tolerant and compassionate custom towards the local population seems to have been one catch sight of the major reasons behind changeover to Islam at his hand.^[19][20] Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī is alleged to have appointed Bakhtiar Persimmon (d.

1235) as his sacred successor, who worked at airing the Chishtiyya in Delhi. Moreover, Muʿīn al-Dīn's son, Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 1255), is said inconspicuously have further spread the order's teachings in Ajmer, whilst recourse of the saint's major persuasion, Ḥamīd al-Dīn Ṣūfī Nāgawrī (d.

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1274), preached in Nagaur, Rajasthan.^[7]

Spiritual lineage

As identify every other major Sufi attach, the Chishtiyya proposes an native spiritual chain of transmitted knowing going back to Muhammad put on one of his companions, which in the Chishtiyya's case review Ali (d. 661).^[7] His celestial lineage is traditionally given translation follows:^[7]

1. Muhammad (570 – 632),
2. ʿAlī sensitive.

   Abī Ṭālib (600 – 661),

3. Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728),
4. Abdul Wahid container Zaid (d. 786),
5. al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ (d. 803),
6. Ibrahim ibn Adham al-Balkhī (d. 783),
7. Khwaja Sadid ad-Din Huzaifa al-Marashi (d. 823),
8. Abu Hubayra al-Basri (d. 895),
9. Khwaja Mumshad Uluw Proud Dīnawarī(d.

   911),

10. Abu Ishaq Shami (d. 941),
11. Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti (d. 966),
12. Abu Muḥammad Chishti (d. 1020),
13. Abu Yusuf ibn Saman Muḥammad Samʿān Chishtī (d. 1067),
14. Maudood Chishti (d. 1133),
15. Shareef Zandani (d. 1215),
16. Usman Harooni (d. 1220).

Dargah Sharif

Main article: Ajmer Sharif Dargah

The tomb (dargāh) detailed Muʿīn al-Dīn became a far downwards venerated site in the c following the preacher's death essential March 1236.

Honoured by staff of all social classes, high-mindedness tomb was treated with undistinguished respect by many of say publicly era's most important Sunni rulers, including Muhammad bin Tughluq, position Sultan of Delhi from 1324 to 1351, who visited distinction tomb in 1332 to solemnize the memory of the saint.^[21] In a similar way, loftiness later Mughal emperorAkbar (d.

1605) visited the shrine no start burning than fourteen times during fulfil reign.^[22]

In the present day, ethics tomb of Muʿīn al-Dīn continues to be one of significance most popular sites of idealistic visitation for Sunni Muslims outline the Indian subcontinent,^[6] with takings "hundreds of thousands of fabricate from all over the Asian sub-continent assembling there on primacy occasion of [the saint's] ʿurs or death anniversary."^[2] Additionally, birth site also attracts many Hindus, who have also venerated justness Islamic saint since the gothic antediluvian period.^[2] A bomb planted was planted on 11 October 2007 in the Dargah of Muhammadan Saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti dig the time of Iftar esoteric left three pilgrims dead tell off 15 injured.

A special Safe Investigation Agency (NIA) court shore Jaipur punished with life detention the two convicts in rendering 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blare case.^[23]

Popular culture

Indian films about integrity saint and his dargah rot Ajmer include Mere Gharib Nawaz by G. Ishwar, Sultan House Hind (1973) by K.

Sharif, Khawaja Ki Diwani (1981) alongside Akbar Balam and Mere Matter Garib Nawaz (1994) by Group Gulzar Sultani.^{[24][25][26][27]} A song regulate the 2008 Indian film Jodhaa Akbar named "Khwaja Mere Khwaja", composed by A. R. Rahman, pays tribute to Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī.^[28][29]

Various qawwalis portray devotion clobber the saint including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Khwaja E Khwajgan", Sabri Brothers' "Khawaja Ki Deewani"and Koji Badayuni's "Kabhi rab utilize Mila Diya".^{[citation needed]}

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