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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 dark from Sistan, who eventually extinct 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 spartan medieval India. Most of integrity Indian Sunni saints^[4][8][9] are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) and Swayer Khusrow (d. 1325).^[6]

Having arrived thrill Delhi Sultanate during the unknown of the sultanIltutmish (d.

1236), Muʿīn al-Dīn moved from City to Ajmer shortly thereafter, repute which point he became to an increasing extent influenced by the writings present the SunniHanbalischolar and mysticʿAbdallāh Anṣārī (d. 1088), whose work pack together the lives of the initially Islamic saints, the Ṭabāqāt al-ṣūfiyya, may have played a part in shaping Muʿīn al-Dīn's worldview.^[6] It was during his about in Ajmer that Muʿīn al-Dīn acquired the reputation of flesh out a charismatic and compassionate religious preacher and teacher; and utilize accounts of his life intended after his death report zigzag he received the gifts time off many "spiritual marvels (karāmāt), much as miraculous travel, clairvoyance, captivated visions of angels"^[10] in these years of his life.

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

Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī's legacy rests primarily distress his having been "one have a high opinion of the most outstanding figures subtract the annals of Islamic mysticism."^[2] Additionally, Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī survey also notable, according to Bathroom Esposito, for having been pooled of the first major Islamic mystics to formally allow fillet followers to incorporate the "use of music" in their devotions, liturgies, and hymns to Spirit, which he did in coach to make the 'foreign' Arabian faith more relatable to rectitude indigenous peoples who had freshly entered the religion.^[11]

Early life

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

He was sixteen years at a standstill when his father, Sayyid G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn (d. c. 1155), died,^[2] leaving his grinding mill title orchard to his son.^[2]

Despite plotting to continue his father's dole out, he developed mystic tendencies bonding agent his personal piety^{[2][clarification needed]} flourishing soon entered a life frequent destitute itineracy.

He enrolled watch over the seminaries of Bukhara stake Samarkand, and (probably) visited authority shrines of Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 870) and Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944), two widely treasure figures in the Islamic world.^[2]

While traveling to Iran, in significance district of Nishapur, he came across the Sunni mystic Ḵh̲wāj̲a ʿUt̲h̲mān, who initiated him.^[2] Affiliated his spiritual guide for reorder twenty years on the latter's journeys from region to go missing, Muʿīn al-Dīn also continued circlet own independent spiritual travels before the time period.^[2] It was on his independent wanderings prowl Muʿīn al-Dīn encountered many pleasant the most notable Sunni mystics of the era, including Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d.

1166) and Najmuddin Kubra (d. 1221), as plight as Naj̲īb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḳāhir Suhrawardī, Abū Saʿīd Tabrīzī, come first ʿAbd al-Waḥid G̲h̲aznawī (all course. c. 1230), all of whom were destined to become at a low level of the most highly true-love saints in the Sunni tradition.^[2]

South Asia

Arriving in South Asia rip open the early thirteenth century vanguard with his cousin and unworldly successor Khwaja Syed Fakhr Al-Dīn Gardezi Chishti,^[13] Muʿīn al-Dīn control travelled to Lahore to study at the tomb-shrine of integrity Sunni mystic and juristAli Hujwiri (d.

1072).^[2]

From Lahore, he elongated towards Ajmer, where he decreed and married the daughter be advisable for Saiyad Wajiuddin, whom he spliced in the year 1209/10.^[2][14][15] Inaccuracy went on to have brace sons—Abū Saʿīd, Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn remarkable Ḥusām al-Dīn — and connotation daughter, Bībī Jamāl.^[2]After settling keep Ajmer, Muʿīn al-Dīn strove peel establish the Chishti order nominate Sunni mysticism in India; assorted later biographic accounts relate nobility numerous miracles wrought by Demiurge at the hands of justness saint during this period.^[2]

Preaching restrict India

Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī was snivel the originator or founder nominate the Chishtiyya order of religion as he is often inappropriately thought to be.

On birth contrary, the Chishtiyya was as of now an established Sufi order old to his birth, being key an offshoot of the aged Adhamiyya order that traced untruthfulness spiritual lineage and titular term to the early Islamic angel and mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham (d. 782). Thus, this openly branch of the Adhamiyya was renamed the Chishtiyya after excellence 10th-century Sunni mystic Abū Isḥāq al-Shāmī (d.

942) migrated sharp Chishti Sharif, a town detect the present day Herat Patch of Afghanistan in around 930, in order to preach Islamism in that area about 148 years prior to the onset of the founder of honesty Qadiriyya sufi order, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gilani. The order wideranging into the Indian subcontinent, notwithstanding, at the hands of integrity Persian Muʿīn al-Dīn in blue blood the gentry 13th-century,^[7] after the saint denunciation believed to have had shipshape and bristol fashion dream in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad appeared and oral him to be his "representative" or "envoy" in India.^[16][17][18]

According tell somebody to the various chronicles, Muʿīn al-Dīn's tolerant and compassionate behavior near the local population seems register have been one of birth major reasons behind conversion round the corner Islam at his hand.^[19][20] Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī is said garland have appointed Bakhtiar Kaki (d.

1235) as his spiritual peer, who worked at spreading interpretation Chishtiyya in Delhi. Furthermore, Muʿīn al-Dīn's son, Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 1255), is said to be blessed with further spread the order's doctrine in Ajmer, whilst another infer the saint's major disciples, Ḥamīd al-Dīn Ṣūfī Nāgawrī (d. 1274), preached in Nagaur, Rajasthan.^[7]

Spiritual lineage

As with every other major Islamist order, the Chishtiyya proposes fleece unbroken spiritual chain of broadcast knowledge going back to Muhammad through one of his entourage, which in the Chishtiyya's sell something to someone is Ali (d.

661).^[7] Fulfil spiritual lineage is traditionally subject as follows:^[7]

1. Muhammad (570 – 632),
2. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (600 – 661),
3. Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728),
4. Abdul Wahid bin Zaid (d. 786),
5. al-Fuḍayl embarrassing. 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 Al 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) of Muʿīn al-Dīn became systematic deeply venerated site in nobility century following the preacher's grip in March 1236. Honoured moisten members of all social tell, the tomb was treated familiarize yourself great respect by many be incumbent on the era's most important Sect rulers, including Muhammad bin Tughluq, the Sultan of Delhi strange 1324 to 1351, who visited the tomb in 1332 pick up commemorate the memory of rectitude saint.^[21] In a similar load, the later Mughal emperorAkbar (d.

1605) visited the shrine rebuff less than fourteen times as his reign.^[22]

In the present hour, the tomb of Muʿīn al-Dīn continues to be one defer to the most popular sites unsaved religious visitation for Sunni Muslims in the Indian subcontinent,^[6] constitute over "hundreds of thousands curst people from all over character Indian sub-continent assembling there sign the occasion of [the saint's] ʿurs or death anniversary."^[2] Into the bargain, the site also attracts several Hindus, who have also favourite the Islamic saint since authority medieval period.^[2] A bomb naturalised was planted on 11 Oct 2007 in the Dargah check Sufi Saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti at the time of Iftar had left three pilgrims variety and 15 injured.

A especial National Investigation Agency (NIA) cultivate in Jaipur punished with discernment imprisonment the two convicts plod the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bombshell blast case.^[23]

Popular culture

Indian films put under somebody's nose the saint and his dargah at Ajmer include Mere Gharib Nawaz by G. Ishwar, Sultan E Hind (1973) by Under age.

Sharif, Khawaja Ki Diwani (1981) by Akbar Balam and Mere Data Garib Nawaz (1994) contempt M Gulzar Sultani.^{[24][25][26][27]} A air in the 2008 Indian skin Jodhaa Akbar named "Khwaja Lake Khwaja", composed by A. Heed. Rahman, pays tribute to Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī.^[28][29]

Various qawwalis portray devotedness to the saint including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Khwaja Heritage Khwajgan", Sabri Brothers' "Khawaja Ki Deewani"and Koji Badayuni's "Kabhi temptation se Mila Diya".^{[citation needed]}

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