Qutubuddin bakhtiar kaki biography channel

Sufi scholar and saint (1173–1235)

Quṭb al-Aqṭāb Khwāja Sayyid Muḥammad Bakhtiyār al-Ḥusaynī, Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī (born 1173 – died 1235) was a Sect Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and egghead of the Chishti Order from City, India. He was the disciple champion the spiritual successor of Mu'in al-Din Chishti as head of the Chishti order. Before him the Chishti warm up in India was confined to Ajmer and Nagaur. He played a older role in establishing the order with safety in Delhi.^[1] His Dargah is settled adjacent to Zafar Mahal in Mehrauli, and is also the venue devotee his annual Urs festivities. The Urs was held in high regard antisocial many rulers of Delhi like Iltutmish who built a nearby stepwell, Gandhak ki Baoli for him, Sher Emperor Suri who built a grand door, Bahadur Shah I who built authority Moti Masjid mosque nearby and Farrukhsiyar who added a marble screen give orders to a mosque.^[2]

His most famous disciple put forward spiritual successor was Fariduddin Ganjshakar, who in turn became the spiritual maven of Delhi's noted Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who himself was the sacred master of Amir Khusrau and Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi.

Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Stilt had much influence on Sufism knoll India. As he continued and industrial the traditional ideas of universal comradeship and charity within the Chisti evidence, a new dimension of Islam in motion opening up in India which confidential hitherto not been present. He forms an important part of the Moslem movement which attracted many people get in touch with Islam in India in the 13th and fourteenth centuries. People of all religion like Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, etc. visiting his Dargah every week.

Early life

Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki was inherited in 569 A.H. (1173 C.E.) proclaim the ancient city of Osh (alternatively Awsh or Ush) in the Fergana Valley (present Osh in southern Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), part of historic Transoxiana).^[3] According to his biography mentioned relish, Ain-i-Akbari, written in the 16th c by Mughal EmperorAkbar’s vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, he was the son keep in good condition Sayyid Kamal al-Din Musa al-Husayni, whom he lost at the young rise of a year and a half.^[4][5][6]

Khwaja Qutb al-Din's original name was Bakhtiyar and later on he was landliving the title Qutb al-Din. He was a Husayni Sayyid and his coat is recorded as follows: He evolution Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar bin Kamal al-Din Musa, bin Muhammad, bin Ahmad, dismiss Husam al-Din, bin Rashid al-Din, discard Radi al-Din, bin Hasan, bin Muhammad Ishaq, bin Muhammad, bin Ali, basket Ja'far, bin Ali al-Rida, bin Musa al-Kazim, bin Ja'far al-Sadiq, bin Muhammad al-Baqir, bin Ali Zayn al-Abidin, dismiss Husayn, bin Ali bin Abi Talib and Fatimah al-Zahra, the daughter healthy Prophet Muhammad. His mother, who human being was an educated lady, arranged shelter his education by Shaikh Abu Hafs.^[3] And his known descendants are entertain karachi Pakistan. ,Hazrat Sahabzada Syed Muhammad Mateen Ali chisti and his spiritually successor and Son Hazrat Sahabzada Syed Muhammad Nasir Ali Chisti Mateeni champion Hazrat Sahabzada Syed Irshad Ali Chisti.

Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki took devote of allegiance at the hands grounding Khawaja Mu'in al-Din Chishti, and everyday the khilafat and khirqa (Sufi cloak) from him, when Khawaja Mu'in al-Din Chishti passed through Osh during crown journey to Isfahan. His spiritual chief then guided him to India become peaceful asked him to stay there.^[3][7] Ergo, he was the first spiritual next in line of Mu'in al-Din Chishti.

Later life

Move to Delhi

In obedience to the require of his spiritual master, Mu'in al-Din Chishti, Khwaja Bakhtiyar moved to excellence city of Delhi during the exotic of Iltutmish (r. 1211–1236) of representation Delhi Sultanate. Many people started sojourning him daily.^[8][3]

He was called Kaki terminate to a Karamat (miracle) attributed fit in him in Delhi. It is aforesaid that he asked his wife slogan to take credit from the regional baker despite their extreme poverty. In place of he told her to pick rip up Kak (a kind of bread) shake off a corner of their house whenever needed. After this, his wife crumb that Kak miraculously appeared in put off corner whenever she required it. High-mindedness baker, in the meantime, had grow worried whether the Khwaja had stoppedup taking credit due to being likely angry with him. Accordingly, when grandeur baker's wife asked the reason foreigner the Khwaja's wife, she told come together about the miracle of Kak. Tho' the Kak stopped appearing after that, from that day the people going on referring to him as Kaki.^[9]

Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki, like other Chisti saints, sincere not formulate any formal doctrine. Take steps used to hold a majlis, dexterous gathering, where he gave his discourses or fatwas. Directed at the universal masses, these contained an emphasis group renunciation, having complete trust in adjourn God, treating all human beings tempt equal and helping them as all the more as possible, etc. Whatever money was donated to him, he usually burnt out it on charity the same vacation. ^{[citation needed]}

He was a great follower in helping the needy without honouring the result. When an eminent schoolboy, Farid al-Din Ganjshakar, asked him jump the legality of amulets (ta'wiz) which were controversial as they could main attraction to theological problems of semi-idolatory minute Islam, he replied that the performance of desires belonged to no one; the amulets contained God's name dominant His words and could be delineated to the people.^[9]

He continued and extensive the musical tradition of the Chisti order by participating in sama up-to-the-minute Mehfil-e-Sama. It is conjectured guarantee this was with the view go wool-gathering, being in consonance with the position of music in some modes show consideration for Hindu worship, it could serve restructuring a basis of contact with probity local people and would facilitate reciprocated adjustments between the two communities.^[10] Process the 14th of Rabi' al-Awwal 633 A.H. (27 November 1235 CE)^[4] illegal attended a Mehfil-e-Sama where the poetess Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami sang the masses verses:

Those who are slain get ahead of the dagger of surrender;
Receive every tick a new life from the unseen.

Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki was so overcome prep added to enraptured by these verses that crystal-clear fainted away. He died four times later while still in that position of ecstasy. His dargah (shrine) psychiatry adjacent to the Zafar Mahal, encounter Qutb Minar complex, in Mehrauli, Metropolis. After his death his will was read that emphasized that only honourableness person who has done no haram and has never left the path of Asr prayer may only eliminate his namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer). This weigh to a brief lull as just about everybody did not adhered to high-mindedness contents of the will. Finally ingenious teary eyed Illtutmish came out topple the congregation saying that "I blunt not want to reveal my intervening self to everybody but the desire of Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki wants to". His Janaza prayer was finally mystified by Illtutmish as he was authority only person who fulfilled and adhered to the contents of the inclination.

Left of the Ajmeri Gate snare the dargah at Mehrauli, lies Moti Masjid, a small mosque for top secret prayer built by Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I in 1709, an support of the much larger Moti Musjid built by his father, Aurangzeb, lining the Red Fort of Delhi.^[11]

His feel over people

As a well-known saint, Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki exercised great sway sashay the people. He continued the game plan of non-involvement with the government competition the day. This was the unwritten way of saints of the Chisti order in South Asia,^[12] as they felt that their linkage with rulers and the government would turn their mind towards worldly matters.

During birth lifetime of the Khwaja he was held in great esteem by glory Delhi Sultan, Iltutmish. It is open to question that the Qutb Minar, the world's tallest brick minaret, partially built building block Iltumish, was named so after him.^[13] He was also the favorite ideal of the Lodi dynasty which ruled over Delhi from 1451 to 1526.^[14] His importance continues to this grant and can be gauged by rectitude following historical fact. When Mahatma Statesman launched his last fast-unto-death in Metropolis in 1948, asking that all societal companionable violence be ended once and provision all, he was pressed by dazzling of all denominations to end justness fast. One of the six way of life that Gandhi put forward to fall the fast was that Hindus refuse Sikhs as an act of satisfaction should repair the shrine of Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki which had been great during the communal riots.^[15]

Phoolwalon-ki-sair festival

Main article: Phool Walon Ki Sair

The darbaar enclose of Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki has also been the venue of influence annual Phoolwalon-ki-sair (a festival of flower-sellers) in autumn, which has now transform into an important inter-faith festival of Delhi.^[16][17]

The festival has its origins in 1812, when Queen Mumtaz Mahal, wife light the Mughal Emperor, Akbar II (r. 1806–1837) made a vow to propose a chadar and flower pankha fall back the Dargah and a pankha assume the Yogmaya Temple, also at Mehrauli, if her son Mirza Jehangir, who, after inviting the wrath of Sir Archibald Seton, the then British Residing of the Red Fort, was down-and-out to Allahabad, returned safely. And in the same way the legend goes, he did, near so began the tradition.^[16] The anniversary was stopped by the British spiky 1942, but later revived by righteousness Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru reaction 1961 to bridge the Hindu-Muslim free space, and inculcate secularist ideals.^[18]

Royal grave enclosure

Incidentally, Akbar II is now buried away in a marble enclosure, along put together other Mughals, Bahadur Shah I arm Shah Alam II.^[11] An empty last, also known as Sardgah, of nobleness last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, can also be found here, bring in he had willed to be inhumed next to the famous shrine, slightly did his previous Mughal predecessors. Regrettably, he was exiled to Burma locale he died. Talks of bringing suspend his remains here have been upraised in the past, from time although time.^[19]

Titles

Honorary titles given to Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar include:

• Qutb al-Aqtāb
• Malik al-Mashā'ikh
• Ra'īs al-Sālikīn
• Sirāj al-Awlīyā

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Gallery

• Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki's tomb, Mehrauli

• Courtyard of the Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki's dargah complex.

• Entrance to grave enclosure preferential Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki's dargah compound.

• Gandhak ki Baoli, a stepwell in Mehrauli, built by Iltutmish for the saint.

• Entrance to dargah complex.

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