Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-e-Delhi](ca 1274-1356)
was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a murid (disciple) of noted Sufi saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, and later his successor He was the last
important Sufi of the Chishti
Order from Delhi.
Biography
Nasiruddin Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi
(or Chiragh-e-Delhi was born as Nasiruddin around 1274, at Ayodhya, Uttar
Pradesh. His father, Syed Yahya, who
traded in Pashmina,
and his grandfather, Syed Abdul Latif, first migrated from Khorasan, northeastern Iran, to Lahore, and thereafter settled in Ayodhya,
in Awadh. His father died when he was only nine years of age and he
received his early education from Maulana Abdul Karim Sherwani, and later
continued it with Maulana Iftikhar Uddin Gilani.
At age forty, he left Ayodhya for
Delhi, where he became the disciple of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya. It was here that he stayed for the rest of his life as
his murid (disciple), and after his death, became his
successor. In time, he also became a known poet in Persian
language.
He died in 17 Ramzan 757 Hijri or 1356 AD at the age of 82, and is buried in a
part of South Delhi, India which is known as "Chirag-e-Delhi" after
him.
Disciples
One of his noted disciples was Bande Nawaz Gezu Daraz, who later moved to Daulatabad around 1398, owing to the attack of Timur on Delhi, and from where at the invitation ofBahamani King, Firuz Shah Bahamani, moved to Gulbarga, Karnataka, where he stayed for the following 22 years of his life,
spreading the Chishti Order in the South, until his death in November 1422.
The dargah (mausoleum)
of Khwaja Bande Nawaz, exists today in the city of Gulbarga, as a symbol of
multi-religious unity. During his stay in Delhi, he continued to visit Ayodhya
often, where he made a number of disciples, notably, Shaikh Zainuddin Ali
Awadhi, Shaikh Fatehullah Awadhi and Allama Kamaluddin Awadhi. Hazrat
Kamaluddin Allama was his nephew and made him his successor and thereafter his
successors are in Ahmedabad Gujarat India present successor of Khanqa E Auliya
Chishtiya is Khawaja Ruknuddin Mohammed Farrukh Chishti. He resides at
Nasirbaug, Shahibaug, Gujarat , Ahmedabad, India
Dargah
After his death, his tomb was built
by Firuz Shah Tughluq (r. 1351 - 1388), the Sultan
of Delhi in 1358, and later two
gateways were added on either side of mausoleum. One of noted addition was a
mosque built by a later Mughal emperor, Farrukhsiyar, in the early 18th centuryand popular among both Muslims
and non-Muslims. A humble tomb of the founder of Lodhi dynasty, Bahlul Khan Lodhi (r.1451-89) lies close to the shrine,] in the present day locality of ‘Chirag Delhi’ that
grew around the tomb since 1800, and still goes by his name, it is very close
to the locality of Greater
Kailash, in South
Delhi.
Legacy
Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehalvi, unlike
his spiritual master Nizamuddin Auliya, did not listen to sema, which was considered un-Islamic by a section of the Muslim
intelligentsia in that period. He did not however pass any specific judgement
against it. This is the reason why even today, qawwali is
not performed near his shrine in Delhi. Hazrat Nasiruddin's descendants are to
be found far and wide as a lot of them moved down South to Hyderabad. The dargah of
Badi Bua or Badi Bibi, who said be the elder sister of Nasiruddin Mahmud
Chiragh Dehlavi, still exists in city of Ayodhya. it is not true that his
descendants moved to south India in fact they moved to Gujarat patan India his
present heir are in ahmedabad
Khanzada
Jadubansi Rajputs, their acceptance of Islam
Khanzadah, the Persian form of the
Rajputana word Rajput, is the title of the great representatives of
the ancient Jadubansi royal Rajput family, descendants of Krishna and therefore of Lunar
Dynasty.
Jadon (also spelled Jadaun) Rajput Raja Lakhan Pala, the progenitor of the great
family of the Khanzadahs, was the grandson of Raja Adhan Pala (who was 4th in
descent from Raja Tahan Pala). Tahan Pala, who founded Tahangarh, was the
eldest son of Raja Bijai Pala (founder of Bijai Garh),
who himself was 88th in descent from Lord Krishna. Hence, Jadon Raja Lakhan Pala, Mewatpatti (title means,
Lord of Mewat) was 94th in descent from Lord Krishna.
Acceptance of Islam
The family records of Khanzadahs
states that during one of the hunting expedition Kunwar Samar Pal and Kunwar
Sopar Pal, the sons of Jadon Raja Lakhan Pal, met with Sufi saint Nasiruddin
Mahmud, Roshan Chiragh-i Dehli. The acceptance of Islam by Khanzadahs have been
a 'enlightenment of heart' come about from their association with the Sufi
saints.
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