Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti
(536 AH / 1141 AH - 633 AH / 1236 AH)
Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti was one of the famous and great saints. The founder of the Chishti dynasty in India was born in the town of Sistan in Sanjar. His father Khawaja Ghias-ud-Din Hassan was a wealthy businessman and a great devotee. In terms of lineage, he was Najib al-Tarfeen Syed. Your lineage goes back to Hazrat Ali which is as follows. Khawja Moinuddin bin Ghiasuddin bin Syed Kamal bin Syed Ahmad Hussain bin Syed Tahir bin Syed Abdul Aziz bin Syed Ibrahim bin Imam Ali Raza bin Moosa Kazim bin Imam Jafar Sadiq bin Imam Muhammad Baqir bin Imam Ali bin Imam Zainul Abidin bin Imam Hussain bin Ali .
Early age:
At the age of twenty, his father Syed Ghiasuddin died. After the conquest of Sijjistan at the hands of the Khazars, the situation turned to the inner world and a strong tendency towards Sufism arose. Father left a garden and a mill in Turkey. So Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti made gardening your livelihood. Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti did all the work yourself. Watering the trees, leveling the ground, scrutinizing the plants and selling the good walks. One day while he was resting in his garden, Ibrahim Kunduzi, a famous elder who was also fascinated, came to the garden and revolutionized the life of Khwaja Sahib with his own eyes.
Now he turned his attention to the inner world and a very strong tendency was formed towards the Sufi sect. He gave all his wealth and means in the way of God and relied on God and stood alone. The first is Samarkand and Bukhara, which in those days were considered centers of Islamic sciences and arts. Therefore, he studied religious sciences in the schools there with the eminent scholars of that time. Passing through the town of Haroon on its way to Iraq, it is located in District Nishapur. Here he met peer khawja Usman and entered the circle of his disciples.
Marriage and Travelling:
For years, he traveled with my mentor for the purpose of education and training. After that he went for tourism himself. During the trip, he met with observers and scholars. Among these elders were famous personalities like Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Sheikh Najmudin kubra, Sheikh Najibudin, Abdul Qadir Suhrawardi, Sheikh Abu Saeed tabraizi and Sheikh Abdul Wahid Ghaznavi. He toured almost all the major centers of the Nation of Islam that existed in this era and got acquainted with almost all the trends of life, not the Muslims there. After that he visited India. He stayed in Lahore for some time and spent some time on the way to the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajwary. From here He got married in Ajmer. According to Abdul Haq Dehlavi, he had two marriages, one of which was a Hindu girl. she died in Ajmer and here is her shrine which is revered by both Hindus and Muslims.
On the occasion of Urs, there are millions of devotees from India and Pakistan. you had three sons Abu saeed Fakhar u din, Abu hiya Zia u din, Sheikh hassam and one daughter was Bibi Jamal. There are many buildings in the premises of your shrine. Doors. mosques , pavilions, anchorages etc were built there in the last centuries by the Mughal emperors, nobles, merchants and sufis who ruled malwa.
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Mohammad bin Taghluq who was the first ruler of Delhi who visited the shrine of khawaja Sahib. The Malwa gulf sultans built the tomb of the same saint. His mausoleum had become famous as the largest shrine during the reign of Emperor Akbar. Khawaja Sahib was a great elder of his time. Preaching Islam in India is your greatest achievement. The work that you have done is not of ordinary nature nor is it the work of any ordinary person. You are the one who laid the foundation of Chisht chain in India.
He came to Delhi twice. But you distanced yourself from this center of political power and laid the groundwork for an intellectual revolution in this country. Many books are mentioned in your writings, but all historians agree that one book is "Anis-ul-Arwah". History is silent about other books. His caliphs are Khawaja Burhanuddin, Sheikh Hamiduddin Naguri, Bibi Hafiz Jamal, Sheikh Wajihuddin, Sultan Masood Ghazi, Waheeduddin Khorasani and others. Some of your secrets show that you were a very kind-hearted, generous and very compassionate man. He was a pioneer of deep humanity. To you, religion meant service to the people. He taught his disciples to cultivate in them the bounty of the river, the warmth of the sun, and the hospitality of the earth. One of the four major disciplines of Sufism.
Chistia:
The name of the series is related to Chisht, a village near Herat, where the real founder of a series, Khawaja Abu Ishaq Shami, came to know and settled on the knowledge of his mentor, Khawaja Mamshad alu deenwari. The experience of this series is as follows, Abu Ishaq mamshad Alu deenwari, Amin-ud-Din Abi habira Al-Basri, Sadid-ud-Din Hazeefta Al-murashi, Ibrahim Adham bilhi, Abul Faiz Fazil Bin Ayyaz, Abul Fazl Abdul Wahid Bin Zaid, Hassan Al-Basri, Ali Bin Abi Talib, Hazrat Mohammd(PBUH). Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti Brought in the sixth century AD twelveth century ad and established the center of the back sofa in Ajmer. From here the chain spread to around India. Khwaja Moin-ud-Din is the founder of this series. The following series of spiritual leaders reach Moin-ud-Din Hassan, Usman Haruni, Haji Sharif Zandani, Maudood Chishti, Abi Yusuf abi Mohammad, ibn Ahmad bin Farsanafa, Abu Ishaq Shami.
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The activities of the Chishtia chain in India can be divided into four periods:
1- Periods of Mashaikhs which are approximately 597 AH / 1200 to 757 AH / 1356.
2. There are regional monasteries. The eighth century AH fifteenth century AD to the nineteenth century AH to the fifteenth century AD.
3. The rise of the Saber chain. From the ninth century AH to the fifteenth century AD to so on.
4. Revival of the Nizamiya chain. from the twelfth century AH to the Eighteenth century AH to so on.
Sofia of the early period established her monasteries mostly in Rajputana, UP and Punjab. During this period, the chain was based on a very large and centralized system. When Muhammad bin Tughlaq forced the Sufis to settle in different parts of the country, his strategy paralyzed the central system of the Chishti. The head of the organization was filled and regional monasteries which were not under a central system came into being. In the second period, the traditions of the first Sufis were abandoned, and it was easy to find that the Sufis should be the companions of kings and nobles in order to pickle them, whereas the Sufis of the first period stayed away from kings. Û”
During this period, Sheikh Siraj-ud-Din, also known as Officer, laid the foundation of this series in Bengal. When Sheikh Burhanuddin Gharib introduced this systen in DAkan. Sheikh wajihu din, Yousaf kamal ud din and maulana moghess ud din the two disciples of Khwaja Qutbuddin who founded the series in Gujarat, organized the series. Little is known about the founder of this series. The main centers of this branch were Claire, Panipat, Radoli ,gangoo, Thanseet, Jhinjhana, Alaabad, Amrooha deoband, and nanoot. Sheikh abdul Qudoos was a well known person of this branch. Revival of Nizamiya shah of Chistia dynasty Shah kaleemjahan abadi dedicated his life to Sufism and revived the chistia dynasty which was almost over.
Ideology:
"Awaarif-e-Ma'arif" was the most important book of Oldest Chishti Sufis of Indian Sheikh shabhab ud din suharwardi. The basic concept of this series was Wahdat-ul-Wujud. Seizure of personal property is seen as a contradiction of Chishtia Tawakkul Ali Allah. He forsook all worldly possessions and material lusts. He believed in peace and non-violence and considered revenge and revenge as the way of the animal world. Near to him Life is meant for Allah Almighty only. A Sufi should neither aspire to heaven nor fear hell. Chishti Sufis revolutionize emotional life before demanding conversion to Islam for the beginning of asceticism.
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