Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi

Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
Personal life
Born1274
Died1356[1]
Other namesChiragh e Dehli
Religious life
ReligionSunni Islam
TariqaChisti Nizami order
Senior posting
Based inDelhi
Period in officeEarly 14th century
PredecessorNizamuddin Auliya
Students

Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud "Roshan Chirag-e-Dehli" (Urdu نصیرالدین چراغ دہلوی )[2] (c. 1274–1337) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a disciple and successor of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. He is considered as the last important Sufi of the Chishti Order from Delhi.[3][4][5]

His title "Roshan Chirag-e-Delhi", in Persian, means "Illuminated Lamp of Delhi".[6]

  1. ^ [Monumented on the gate at Hazrat Nasiruddin Chirag Mausoleum his resting place]
  2. ^ Hazrat NasirudDin Mahmud. Entitled Raushan Chiragh-i-Dihli Sufi Saints of Delhi.
  3. ^ "CRACKIAS - Performance of Red Books for GS PRELIMS In UPSC 2020". www.crackias.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
  4. ^ Nizamuddin Auliya Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Ain-i-Akbari, by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. English tr. by Heinrich Blochmann and Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett, 1873–1907. The Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, Volume III, Saints of India. (Awliyá-i-Hind), page 365. "many under his direction attained to the heights of sanctity, such as Shaykh Naṣíru'ddín Muḥammad Chirágh i Dihlí, Mír Khusrau, Shaykh Aláu'l Ḥaḳḳ, Shaykh Akhí Siráj, in Bengal, Shaikh Wajíhu'ddín Yúsuf in Chanderi, Shaykh Yạḳúb and Shaykh Kamál in Malwah, Mauláná Ghiyáṣ, in Dhár, Mauláná Mughíṣ, in Ujjain, Shaykh Ḥusain, in Gujarat, Shaykh Burhánu'ddín Gharíb, Shaykh Muntakhab, Khwájah Ḥasan, in the Dekhan."
  5. ^ "Great Sufi Saints". Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference wor was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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