Question

Whose disciple was Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti?
1. Khwaja Abdal Chisti
2. Shah Wali Ullah
3. Mir Dard
4. Khwaja Usman Haruni

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Khwaja Usman Haruni

The correct answer is Khwaja Usman Haruni.

• Khwaja Usman Haruni
  • Khwaja Usman Harooni was born in Haroon, which is in Iran.
  • Khwaja Usman Haruni's disciple was Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
  • According to some, he was born in 526 AH (1131 AD) and according to others, he was born in 510 AH (1116 AD).
  • He is also known by his nicknames as Abu Noor and Abu Mansur.
  • When he was rather young, he came in touch with an absorbed mystic (majzub) by the name of Chirk.
  • This association with Chirk brought about a significant transformation in his life.
  • As a result, the material world lost its charm for him and he decided to embrace a higher moral and spiritual life.
  • Khwaja Usman Harooni went to meet Hazrat Haji Sharif Zindani, a renowned mystic and saint of the Chishti Order, with a request to be enrolled as his spiritual disciple.
  • Khwaja Haji Sharif Zindani found him to be a fit person and accepted the request, by placing a four-edged cap upon the head of Khwaja Usman Harooni.

• Khwaja Abdal Chisti
  • Khwaja Abu Ahmad Abdal Chishti was a great saint and the successor of Abu Ishaq, the founder of the Chishtiya Silsilah.
  • He was acknowledged by his contemporaries as an abdal, hence his title’Qutab al-Abdal’( the axis of the substitute saints).
  • He was the son of Sultan Faransafah, and his lineage is linked to Imam Hussain.
  • His aunt was a saintly woman, and was devoted to Hazrat Khwaja Abu Ishaq r.a. Occasionally the master of the Chishtiya silsilah would partake of meals with her husband at her house.
  • One day he remarked that in the house of her brother (sultan), a very pious child was to be born, he instructed her to go there and ensure that the queen ate no doubtful food during her pregnancy.
  • It was this level of care, even before his birth that contributed greatly to the future wilayah of Khwaja Abu Ahmad.
• Shah Wali Ullah
  • Shah Wali Ullah is an Indian theologian and promulgator of modern Islamic thought who first attempted to reassess Islamic theology in the light of modern changes.
  • Wali Ullah received a traditional Islamic education from his father and is said to have memorized the Quran at the age of seven.
  • In 1732 he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and he then remained in the Hejaz (now in Saudi Arabia) to study religion with eminent theologians.
  • He reached adulthood at a time of disillusionment following the death in 1707 of Aurangzeb, the last Mughal emperor of India.
  • Because large areas of the empire had been lost to Hindu and Sikh rulers of the Deccan and Punjab, Indian Muslims had to accept the rule of non-Muslims.
• Mir Dard
  • Khwaja Mir Dard is one of the three major poets of the Delhi School - the other two being Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Sauda - who could be called the pillars of the classical Urdu ghazal.
  • While Mir Taqi Mir, the greatest of them all, is remembered as a poet of love and pathos, and Sauda as a specialist in satire and panegyric, Dard is first and foremost a mystic, who regards the phenomenal world as a veil of the eternal Reality, and this life as a term of exile from our real home.
  • Dard inherited his mystical temperament from his father, Khwaja Mohd. Nasir Andlib, who was a mystic saint and a poet.
  • Dard informally received his education at home, and in the company of the learned, acquiring, in due course, a command of Arabic and Persian, as also of the Sufi lore.
  • He also developed a deep love of music, possibly, through his association with singers and qawwals who frequented his father's house.
  • He renounced earthly pleasures at the young age of 28 and led a life of piety and humility.