A Brief Role of Some Mystical or Sufi Orders During the Mughal Regime, who Arrived India via Persia

During the regime of Salatin-e-Delhi Hazrat Moin-ud-Din Chishti (R.A.)
came and settled at Rajistan, later on, his Mureedain (disciples) started Silsila-iChishtiya (Chishtiya Order). Almost during the same period Shaikh Baha-ud-Din
Zikariya (R.A.) came to Multan as devotee of Shihab-ud-Din Suhrwardi (R.A.)  and  Silsila-i-Suhrwardia  came into being. Similarly Syed Muhammad Ghous
(R.A.), one of the descendants of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gilani (R.A.) came to Uchh
and began another faction Silsila-i-Qadriya. At last through the arrival of Hazrat
Baqi Billa (R.A.) established Silsila-i-Naqshbandiya. All these major mystic cults
penetrated India via Persia and waved spiritually into whole  of Sub-continent.
The successors of these saints created its numerous other sub-religious groups
namely  Nizami,  Sabri,  Hamdani,  Warsi,  Firdousi,  Mujaddidi,  Naushahi and
others.
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 Afterwards, these mystical groups established their  Madrasas
(schools) same as on the Persian and Christian pattern and guided people the
right path of virtue, thus, remained successful to conversion of a large number of
Hindus and other non-Muslims into Islam. Therefore, after their (mystical saints)
death various  mazars  (mausoleums) were created upon their graves and a
practice of  peeri-mureedi  started in Sub-continent which still exists today like
undetached cultural traditions of past and present Iran.
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Every religion has devotees who are consumed by a love of Deity and
strives for emotional, intellectual and spiritual communion to God. When Islam
came into contact with the Christians, the Jews and the Persians who had long
traditions of mystical experience, it could not resist the force of such ideas which
did not come into conflict with its fundamental and yet offered further scope for
such mystical trends which were inherent in it like the idea of Light, Knowledge
and Love and Belief in one God.
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 Sufism indeed was a  religion of intense
devotion, love was its passion; poetry, song and dance its worship; and passing
away in God its ideal.
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“The mysticism is universal and eternal; it appears in all cultures and in all
periods of man’s history. It is an activity of the human mind obscure and illunderstood, arising out of dark regions carefully protected from the intrusion of
intellect, a phenomenon of the subconscious  self, a function of the subliminal
consciousness.”
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 When the Mughals brought with them to India their Central
Asian religious ties, they were merely adding their own connections to a network
that had already long been in place by the preachment of mystic saints of Persia
and Central Asia. During Mughal regime,  Turkish Yasawiyya Sufism spread  reached its highest point. For instance, from the account of Seydi Ali Reis an
Ottoman ambassador and traveler to India that “Yasawi Sufis were present
everywhere in the Islamic world, Sindh, Punjab, Afghanistan, Trans-oxiana,
Khurasan and Azerbayjan.”
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 The following are the famous mystical orders of
Persian origin which played a significant role in the preachment of Islam in Indian
Sub-continent. Almost all these mystical factions were established during the
reigns of Salatin-i-Dehli, but, most of them also kept continued their task in the
Mughal regime.