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.

Sislila-i-Naqshbandiya

Hazrat Khwaja Baqi Billa (R.A.) introduced and organized this sect in Subcontinent during the reign of Akbar. This Silsila actually showed a great protest
against the teachings and impact of social evils occurred as result of Akbar’s Dini-Illahi. Therefore, Hazrat Mujaddid Sirhindi (R.A.) the successor of Hazrat Baqi
Billa (R.A.) played a prime role for  the revival of Muslim society with his
Renaissance Movement. He used rational logics to propagate Islamic teachings
and remained successful to convince majority of the Indian Muslims for a proper
and right path of virtue.

Sislila-i-Qadriya

The pioneer of this Order was Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gilani (R.A.), who is
famous with his knowledge, practice, wisdom and taqwa (abstinence). He wrote Fatuh-ul-Ghaib and  Ghaniyat-ul-Talibain  like literary books. In Indian Subcontinent, this cult entered via his son Shaikh Isa but it was flourished by the
endeavors of Makhdoom Shaikh Muhammad  Hussain Gilani (R.A.) to whom
Sikandar Lodhi was a loyal devotee. The saints of this faction were true believer
of  wahdat-ul-wajood (existentialism) and  ravadari-i-mazhab  (liberalism).
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According to S.M Ikram this mystical fraction flourished well during the regime of
Shah Jahan.

Silsila-i-Suhrwardiya

The founder of this Silsila was Shaikh Abul Najeeb Suhrwardi (R.A.), but
his nephew Shaikh Shihab-ud-Din Suhrwardi (R.A.) really built up this cult, and
later on was reinforced by Shaikh Baha-ud-Din Zakarya Multani (R.A.) in Indian
Sub-continent. Gradually this Silsila reached up to Bengal by the efforts of Jalalud-Din Tabrizi (R.A.). The main features of this cult were emphasis over touba
and  astaghfar  (penitence), spiritual and physical purification,  karamat, and as
well as the relations of their saints with nobility and Salatin.

Silsila-i-Chishtiya

This Silsila was introduced by the saint Khwaja Moin-ud-Din Chishti (R.A.).
It has been the most eminent mystic cult of Sub-continent than any other Silsila-iSufia. They really strengthened the social values of the time concerned through
their soft spoken language and leniency with great zeal. Moreover, they played a
vital role in the propagation  of Islamic teachings as well as spiritual trainings.
Chishti  saints also used  sama  as their principle method of preachment for the
spiritual satisfaction of the people.

PIR BABA VALLY PICX

PIR BABA : GHAUS-E-ZAMAN PIR-E-KHURASAN HAZARAT SYED ALI SHAH TIRMIZI ALAIS PIR BABA R.A. BUNER N.W.F.P.

Let's go to PIR BABA he is so great that the wish is granted on the way to him

Pir Baba Village is a mountain village in the Buner District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Pir Baba Village is named after the great sufi saint "Hazrat Syed Ali Shah Tirmizi Gaus-e-Bunair alias Hazarat Pir Baba R.A." { Hijri 908 to Hijri 991 }Son of Hazarat Syed [Qaaf-Noon-Baa-Raa] QANBAR Ali Tirmizi R.A." born in 908 Hijri at Ghaltanabad in Tirmiz. He had two sons . Details of his family tree [ Syed Ali Shah Tirmizi Bin Syed Qanbar Ali Shah Bin Syed Ahmed Noor Bin Syed Yousuf Noor Bin Syed Muhammad Noor Baksh Bin Syed Ahmed Naeem Bin Syed Baraq Bin Syed Ahmed Mushtaq Bin Syed Abu Turab Bin Syed Hamid Sahab Bin Syed Muhammad Sahab Bin Syed Ishaq Bin Syed Usman Bin Syed Jaafar Bin Syed Umar Bin Syed Muhammad Bin Syed Hussam-ud-din Bin Syed Nasir Bin Syed Jalal Bukhari Bin Syed Ameer Ali Bin Syed Abdul Rahim Bin Syed Mahmud Makki Bin Syed Muhammad Samarkandi Bin Hazrat Imam Ali-al-Naqi Bin Hazrat Imam Muhammmad Al-Taqi Bin Hazrat Al-Raza Bin Hazrat Imam Musa Alkazim Bin Hazrat Imam Jafar Sadiq Bin Hazrat Imam Muhammad Baqir Bin Hazrat Imam Zain-ul-Abideen Bin Hazrat Imam Hussain Bin Hazrat Imam ALI-Al-Murtaza (Razi Allah unhu(May Allah be Happy with him))

In the heart of Pir Baba valley lies the beautiful mausoleum of Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. along with his son Hazarat Syed Mustafa Shah Tirmizi R.A. [ Who was un-married]{ His another son was Hazarat Syed Habibullah Shah Tirmizi R.A. whose mausoleum is in Kunar Afghanistan } where people from every corner come to pay their homages to the respected saint and ask for blessings. It has a green tomb as found in the mausoleums of many Muslim saints. The stream started by Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. by piercing knife is flowing with water till date and people are using it.Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. first went to [India] from [Tirmiz -Afghanistan] in 943 Hijri [ The Islamic Calender Year] for learning and as well as preaching Islam along with his Respected Father who was in the Army of Babar and related to his son Humayun [as being his Brother-in-Law] , then he moved from Delhi to Maankpur in Punjab to learn from Hazarat Sheikh Saloona and then moved to Ajmer Shareef and stayed with Hazarat Saalaar Roomi R.A. and became his disciple [Mureed] and was bestowed with Khilafat by him then after the death of Hazarat Saalaar Roomi R.A. again visited Ajmer Shareef and on instruction of Hazarat Sheikh Hussain R.A. son of Hazarat Saalaar Roomi R.A. to continue preaching of Islam moved to Buner [Kohistan]to preach Islam and wipe out the anti-Islam teaching propogated by the Roshaniya sect their.Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. guided his favourite disciple and Khalifa "Hazarat Akhund Darweza R.A." , Deewanana Baba R.A. and others and they took the special task of uprooting of the heretical anti-Islamic Roshaniya sect which flourished in Kohistan and the sourounding areas .Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. was married to " Respected Bibi" sister of Daulat Khan a respected person of Buner. Syed Mohammed Ibrahim Shah alias Hisar Baba was also one of the Khalifa of Hazarat Pir Baba R.A., Hazarat Pir Baba's descendants wielded great influence among the Pathan tribesmen, and three centuries later Hazarat Syed Akbar Shah R.A.[Born in 1793] provided a rallying point against the Sikhs and the British during the Anglo-Afghan Wars .. 11th of May 1857 [Christian Calender Year] This was the day on which Mujahed-e-Islam Hazarat Syed Akbar Shah R.A. left this world to meet the Creator in the heavens. Incidentally, news of the War of Independence reached Peshawar on this day. The British Commissioner of Peshawar at that time commented upon the death of Hazarat Syed Akbar Shah R.A. that, "If he were alive by this time, than the political scenario of the Frontier would have been much different."

Sadaats the descendants of Pir Baba are said to have moved to Buner, Swat, Dir, Bajaur , Chitral, Mardan, [[Swabi] Karachi , Lahore, Peshawar, Islamabad with in Pakistan ,and are also settled in Europe USA MiddleEast India Thailand ]. Hazarat Pir Baba R.A. second son's { Hazarat Syed Habibullah Shah Tirmizi R.A.} mausoleum is in Kunar Afghanistan . The three sons of Hazarat Syed Habibullah Shah Tirmizi R.A. were 1. Hazarat Syed Mian Hassan Shah Tirmizi R.A. , 2. Hazarat Syed Mian Qassim Shah Tirmizi R.A. and 3. Hazarat Syed Abdullah Shah Tirmizi R.A.