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Sayyid Mir Jan

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Ghawth
Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb
Personal life
Born1800
Kabul
Died(1901-04-19)19 April 1901
Lahore
Resting placeLahore
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni[1][2][3]
JurisprudenceHanafi[1][2][3]
TariqaNaqshbandi[1][2][3]
Sub-Tariqa Naqshbandi Ishaani[4]
CreedMaturidi[1][2][3]
Muslim leader
PredecessorHazrat Ishaan[4]
SuccessorSayyid Mahmud Agha[1]
Influenced by
Influenced

Ghawth Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb ibn Hasan Naqshbandi Ishaani (Arabic: الغوث سيد مير جان شاه صاحب بن حسن النقشبندي الإيشاني) was a Sunni saint from Kabul and contemporary supreme leader of the Naqshbandi Tariqa and Naqshbandi Ishaani Sub-Tariqa as the 7th hereditary successor of his ancestor Hazrat Ishaan.[1][2][3][4]

Ancestry

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Sayyid Mir Jan was a Sayyid (a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib), both maternally and paternally.[6] His ancestors immigrated to Bukhara and after that to Kabul, where Sayyid Mir Jan was born.[5][1] They also migrated to Bukhara,[7][8] where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born.[1][9] A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan,[2][3] whose descendants later immigrated to variable regions of Central Asia, like Khorasan, today known as Afghanistan in order to spread the Naqshbandi Ishaani sub-order's teachings.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

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Early life and education

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Sayyid Mir Jan was introduced in Tasawwuf in the age of 5 years. His father Sayyid Mir Hasan was also a high ranking saint, who used to teach his sons about Islam and Sufism. Sayyid Mir Jan was educated in Kabul and became a professor of Islamic theology. Later he has built his own university in Lahore. Sayyid Mir Jan and his brother Sayyid Mahmud also wrote poems.[1][10]

Spiritual journey

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After his education in Kabul, Sayyid Mir Jan stayed in Medina for a decade to be trained by one of his masters, and while there married a local woman. Later, he traveled to Lahore to the tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Khawand Mahmud, also known as Hazrat Ishaan. Hazrat Ishaan was a Sufi saint from Bukhara, whose wilayat was also in Lahore. Hazrat Ishaan's successors included his two sons Moinuddin Naqshband in Srinagar, Kashmir and Bahauddin in Lahore and their descendants until the late 18th century, by which time the lineage was lost.[11] According to a legend, Hazrat Ishaan made prophecies about Sayyid Mir Jan, naming him as his successor to revive his lineage.[10][12] Sayyid Mir Jan was a Qutb, more commonly known as Ghous, the highest ranking Wali (Saint) of his time.[13][14]

Family

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Sayyid Mir Jan was a son of Sayyid Mir Hasan.[1] Both his brothers Khwaja Sayyid Mir Fazlullah and Sayyid Mir Mahmud are regarded as saints as well.[1] His younger brother Sayyid Mahmud Agha was his disciple, becoming a Ghous one rank below Sayyid Mir Jan.[1] Other siblings included two brothers named Sayyid Mir Azimullah and Khwaja Sayyid Mir Taqiqullah, and five sisters.[1] Sayyid Mir Jan married his wife in Medina, and had 2 sons. His wife and his sons died during a natural disaster.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Khatme Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq (BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahorin
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust". www.nazariapak.info.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F.Richards p. 159
  4. ^ a b c d e the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann; company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  5. ^ a b c Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore) p.65
  6. ^ Imam Ali ibn al-Hussein (2001). The Complite Edition of the Treatise on Rights. Qum: Ansariyan Publications.
  7. ^ "Naqshbandiya shajarasi izidan". Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  8. ^ "Ҳазрат Хожа Баҳоуддин Нақшбанд". Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  9. ^ Sultanova, Razia (2011). "Naqshbandiyya". From Shamanism to Sufism. I.B.Tauris. p. 32-37. ISBN 978-1-84885-309-6.
  10. ^ a b Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)
  11. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann; company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  12. ^ Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq (BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahore
  13. ^ Sufi Sheikhs of Pakistan and Afghanistan
  14. ^ Nicholson, Reynold (2000). Kashf al-Mahjub of al-Hajvari. E. J. W. Gibb Memorial.
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