Day: January 19, 2024

Shaan E Wilayat Maula E Kainaat Aur Wilayat E Khwaja Garib Nawaz

Hazrat Maula E Kainaat Sayyeduna Maula Imam Ali Ul Murzata Ibne Abi Talib Alaihisalam Ki Shaan Ba Zabaan E Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri RadiAllahu Ta’ala Anhu

Hazrat Ali Aur Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti RadiAllahu Ta’ala Anhu Ki Wilayat Mein Kya Farq Hai,
Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Hasan Sanjari RadiAllahu Taala Anhu Se Kisi Ne Puchha Ki “Huzoor ! Ye Bataiye Ki Aap Bhi Allah Ke Wali He Aur Hazrat E Maula Ali Alaihisalam Bhi Allah Ke Wali Hain To Aapki Aur Maula Ali Alaihisalam Ki Wilayat Me Kya Farq He ?

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti RadiAllahu Ta’ala Anhu Ne Sawal Karne Wale Se Puchna “Tum Kya Karte Ho ?”
Woh Bola “Me Zameendar Hun Aur Kaafi Ekad Zameen Ka Maalik Bhi Hun”
Ab Us Sawal Karne Wale Ke Saath Dusra Aadmi Bhi Tha Aap RadiAllahu Taala Anhu Ne Us Se Puchha Ki “Tum Kya Karte Ho ?”

Us Ne Kaha “Hazrat Me Is Zameendar Ki Usi Zameen Par Mazarah (Kisaan) Hun Aur Hal Chalata Hun.”

Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti RadiAllahu Ta’ala Anhu Ne Kaha Suno Jo Farq Zameendar Aur Mazarah (Kisaan) Ke Mansab Me Hai , Wohi Farq Mere Aur Maula Ali Alaihisalam Ki Wilayat Me Hai Hazrat E Maula Ali Alaihisalam Wilayat E Zameen Ke Maalik Hain Aur Hum Un Ke Mazarah Yaani (Kisaan) Hain Hamara Kaam Zameen E Wilayat Mai Hal Chalana Hai . Aur Wilayat Ki Fasal Ke Asl Maalik To Maula Ali Alaihisalam Hain

Jisko Chahe Khairat Ata Kar De Isi Liye Sab Auliya Kahte Hain Ki Hamein Wilayat Maula Ali Alaihisalam Ki Bargaah Se Mili He Aur Isi Liye Maula Ali Alaihisalam Ko Sayyed Ul Auliya Kaha Jata Hai.

Reference : Tazkiratul Mehboob Page 221

𝐀 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐣𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝑲𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒋𝒂 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒃 𝑵𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒛.
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Khwāja Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishti (Urdu: معین الدین چشتی رضي الله عنه ) by Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, was a Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, religious scholar, philosopher and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the famous Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. This particular tariqa (order) became the dominant Muslim spiritual group in medieval India.

Hazrath Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī was born in 1143 in Sistan. He was sixteen years old when his father, Sayyid G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn (d. c. 1155), passed away, leaving his grinding mill and orchard to his son.

Despite planning to continue his father’s business, he developed mystic tendencies in his personal piety and soon entered a life of destitute itineracy. He enrolled 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 widely venerated figures in the Islamic world.

While traveling to Iraq, in the district of Nishapur, he came across the famous Sunni mystic Ḵh̲wāj̲a ʿUt̲h̲mān, who initiated him. Accompanying his spiritual guide for over twenty years on the latter’s journeys from region to region, Muʿīn al-Dīn also continued his own independent spiritual travels during the time period. It was on his independent wanderings that Syedna Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn encountered many of the most notable Sunni mystics of the era, including Sheikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani RA (d. 1166) and Najmuddin Kubra (d. 1221), as well as Naj̲īb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḳāhir Suhrawardī, Abū Saʿīd Tabrīzī, and ʿAbd al-Waḥid G̲h̲aznawī (all d. c. 1230), all of whom were destined to become some of the most highly venerated saints in the Sunni tradition.

Having arrived in Delhi during the reign of the sultan Iltutmish (d. 1236), Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn moved from Delhi to Ajmer shortly thereafter, at which point he became increasingly influenced by the writings of the famous Sunni Hanbali scholar and mystic ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī (d. 1088), whose famous work on the lives of the early Islamic saints, the Ṭabāqāt al-ṣūfiyya, may have played a role in shaping Hazrath Muʿīn al-Dīn’s worldview.It was during his time in Ajmer that Muʿīn al-Dīn acquired the reputation of being a charismatic and compassionate spiritual preacher and teacher; and biographical accounts of his life written after his death report that he received the gifts of many “spiritual marvels (karāmāt), such as miraculous travel, clairvoyance, and visions of angels” in these years of his life. Hazrath Muʿīn al-Dīn seems to have been unanimously regarded as a great saint after his passing.

As such, Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī’s legacy rests primarily on his having been “one of the most outstanding figures in the annals of Islamic mysticism.”

Additionally, Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī is also notable, according to John Esposito, for having been one of the first major Islamic mystics to formally allow his followers to incorporate the “use of music” in their devotions, liturgies, and hymns to God, which he did in order to make the ‘foreign’ Arab faith more relatable to the indigenous peoples who had recently entered the religion.

The tomb (dargāh) of Hazrath Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn became a deeply venerated site in the century following the preacher’s death in March 1236.

Honoured by members of all social classes, the tomb was treated with great respect by many of the era’s most important Sunni rulers, including Muhammad bin Tughluq, the Sultan of Delhi from 1324 to 1351, who paid a famous visit to the tomb in 1332 to commemorate the memory of the saint.

In a similar way, the later Mughal emperor Akbar (d. 1605) visited the shrine no less than fourteen times during his reign.

In the present day, the tomb of Hazrath Khwaja Muʿīn al-Dīn continues to be one of the most popular sites of religious visitation for Sunni Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, with over “hundreds of thousands of people from all over the Indian sub-continent assembling there on the occasion of [the saint’s] ʿurs or death anniversary.”
(Sourced from Wikipedia)

Tonight, Rajab 6th marks the Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti RA – الفاتحة