Khwaja moinuddin chishti biography definition

Mazra’a Chisht o Bukhara o Iraq o Ajmer Kaun Si Kasht Pey Barsaa Nahi Jhala Teyra? * The lands of Chisht, Bukhara, Iraq and Ajmer Upon which

lands did your blessings not fall?
Imam Ala Hazrat Ahmad Raza Khan Alayhi Rahma

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:

Birth Name: Moinuddin Chishti

Born in: the year 536AH in Sijistan, Iran
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Khwaja Moinudeen Chishti Alayhi Rahma was born in the year 536AH in Sijistan, Iran as the son of Khwaja Ghyasuddin Chishti who was a very pious and influential man. He was a direct descendant through both his parents, of Hazrat Ali (RA). His birth was a time of chaos and great upheavals in both India and the Muslim Empire as a whole, and so he was orphaned at the tender age of fourteen. Thus raised in the same condition as Rasulallah , peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

But soon there reached a point where social evils, moral degradations and personal tragedy stirred something deep within his young mind, and he began to turn towards the spiritual life. Once when watering his father’s garden, he came across a dervish, Hazrat Ibrahim Qanduzi (RA). He was deeply affected by the saint’s holy manner, and Hazrat Ibrahim Qanduzi (RA)’s presence transformed Khwaja Moinudeen Chishti (RA)’s inner being. His eyes were opened to the ultimate realities of the spiritual world and so he began his spiritual journey by renouncing all material things. He sold his father’s garden, all his possessions and distributed the money amongst the poor.

 
Still at a young age, he arrived at the great centres of learning in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan, where he swiftly became a Hhafiz and distinguished Alim. But still unsatisfied with this, he began a strict regime of prayers, meditations, fasting and self-renunciation which continued for years and grew more intense and vigorous until Allah granted him the exalted rank of sainthood. He used to fast for seven days and nights, breaking fast on the eighth wit

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Who was Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti? 

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti was a Sufi mystic Saint and Philosopher. He was born in 1143 AD in the Sistan region. It currently lies in the South Eastern part of Iran, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He had a benevolent nature with qualities of piety and sacrifice from early childhood. His father died during his teenage years. He planned to take up his father’s occupation but soon turned towards a life of spirituality. 

On his spiritual journey, he met with the famous saint Hazrat Khwaja Usman Harooni. He accepted Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti as his disciple and initiated him. He received the Khilafat from Sheikh Usman at the age of 52. After this, he went to Hajj, Mecca and Medina. He started living in Ajmer, Rajasthan, during the rule of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. In the Battle of Tarain in 1192, Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Ghori then came to visit Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, where he used to preach. He soon drew the attention, love and affection of the local people, poor peasants and nobles who came from far away. 

He preached and popularised the teachings of the Chishti Silsila (Order) of Islam in India, also known as Chishtiya. It was a Sufi Mystical Order of the Sunni Islam. It teaches the virtues of Love, Tolerance, Benevolence, and distance from materialism. He also founded the Khanqah of Ajmer to help poor people. 

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti died in 1236 AD. He was rested in Ajmer. His tomb (Dargah) is famously known as Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmer Sharif Dargah. This is a highly revered place for his followers. It was visited by Emperors like Iltutmish, Akbar, Razia Sultana, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, etc. The Maharaja of Broda constructed a beautiful covering over the Dargah Sharif. Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Jahanara contributed to renovating it. 

Each year the death anniversary of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti is celebrated as a festival called ‘Urs’. It is interesting to n

Persian Islamic scholar and mystic (1143–1236)

For other uses, see Mu'in al-Din Chishti (disambiguation).

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: خواجه غریب نواز, romanized: Khawāja Gharīb Nawāz), was a PersianIslamic scholar and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. This particular Tariqa (order) became the dominant Islamic spiritual order in medieval India. Most of the Indian Sunni saints are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) and Amir Khusrow (d. 1325).

Having arrived in Delhi Sultanate during the reign of the sultanIltutmish (d. 1236), Muʿīn al-Dīn moved from Delhi to Ajmer shortly thereafter, at which point he became increasingly influenced by the writings of the SunniHanbalischolar and mysticʿAbdallāh Anṣārī (d. 1088), whose work on the lives of the early Islamic saints, t