Khwaja moinuddin chisti real photo

This particular Tariqa order became the dominant Islamic spiritual order in medieval India. Most of the Indian Sunni saints [ 4 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya d. Having arrived in Delhi Sultanate during the reign of the sultan Iltutmish d. Despite planning to continue his father's business, he developed mystic tendencies in his personal piety [ 2 ] [ clarification needed ] 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. On the contrary, the Chishtiyya was already an established Sufi order prior to his birth, being originally an offshoot of the older Adhamiyya order that traced its spiritual lineage and titular name to the early Islamic saint and mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham d.

As with every other major Sufi order, the Chishtiyya proposes an unbroken spiritual chain of transmitted knowledge going back to Muhammad through one of his companions , which in the Chishtiyya's case is Ali d. 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 to , who visited the tomb in to commemorate the memory of the saint.

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Hazrat khwaja moinuddin chishti

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