The Famous saint Hazrat Khwaja Moin Uddin Chishti ( Ajmer Sharif, India) and famous Saint Hazrat Baba Farid Uddin Ganj Shakar ( Pakpattan Sharif, Pakistan) .....this strong religious and spiritual connection might have played an important role in bringing peace in the region...but no one explored. Guru Nanak’s Khadawan (wooden slippers normally worn by Indian holy-men) are preserved in a niche near the Kaaba complex labelled ‘Peer Baba Nanak’. A BLOG ABOUT THE SIKH PEOPLE FOR NORTH AMERICANS by Group Captain Tejwant Singh, In July 2010, following heavy monsoon rains nearby, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northern Pakistan was flooded. The flood water came cascading down hillsides, sweeping in its torrent man and material alike. Chpt. Tue 7/10/2018, 7:46 AM i mean just look at you, you look like you just crawled out of the sewer Tejwant,you have no right to talk against any community or country,well thnis site oblviously is a forum owned by an extremist sikh retard who must have lost a fight to some pakistani probably when he was in the force,now he thinks he can badmouth the better nation and get his respect back,close this pointless site,we guys are not like you,badmouthing other communities wont earn you respect,only degrade you even more,and as indian you represent your country on such forums and sites,i personally thought of you guys as friends,but now i see the jealousy withinn such people like yourself, grow up. Obviously many young boys voluntarily went with them but there was no word back from them to their waiting families. Plants grow better with classical music and all milk yielding animals like cows, buffaloes and goats give more and healthy milk. This level of Sufism involves belief in intercession through saints, veneration of their shrines and forming bonds with a pir (saint). This information somehow reached the Muslims and no attack took place. Then their dead bodies were seen floating in canals and people realized what was going to happen. Within the country, the floods accentuated the sharp divisions in Pakistan between the wealthy and the poor. And if you don’t know what kind of barbarity was used I will give you details as recorded by Ibn Batuta the Arab traveler and historian who stayed in India for many decades. Whois: http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/77.173.174.95 (IP: 77.173.174.95), YOUR SECOND COMMENT Your nervous system would cool down we can all live happily. LIST OF MAIN SHRINES SIND Karachi District . Beautiful beautiful work. No you don’t have. The Khwaja was born in Sajistan in Central Asia in the year 1139. Shrines are widely scattered throughout the Islamic world. We quickly prepared our swords and spears and the roof tops were piled with bricks. For pre-partition Sufism in South Asia, see, This article is about Sufism. As seen in this collection, there are undoubtedly Sufis, such as Baba Farid and DatP Ganj Bakhsh, who are at the center of devotion of a mystical kind and whose shrines have vast charismatic appeal which is traceable to a Sufi mystical legacy provided by these Sufis (normally in the form of texts). There is another suggestion before I close this chapter. Ten million people have been  forced to drink unsafe water. Aaron Huey is based in Seattle. Email: diwang4000@gmail.com Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. At one stage our village elders came to know that Muslims from the nearby villages were going to attack us. Who do you think you are man ? Two thousand people have died and over a million homes have been destroyed since the flooding began. URL: https://plus.google.com/105335513990119305297 ( Log Out /  Chopra, R. M., "Great Sufi Poets of the Punjab", 1999, Iran Society, Calcutta. Islam without Sufis, Pakistan without Sufis or the Mughal without Sufis is a thirsty desert. Hats off to the author. Consider the shrine of the poet Rahman Baba, at the foot of the Khyber Pass. Sufi saints in India were viewed as protectors, even of the oppressed Hindus. that living pirs be licensed and taxed by the Auqaf Department (Chaudry 1980:166). WordPress Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to … And it took almost 200 years for it to be finalized after Sunnis and Shias kept arguing over it. Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh empire in the early 19th century, had cordial relations with them. This concept of mutual respect between religions has persisted in the development of Sufism. He said, “I felt very proud that something of India has been so well honoured in Mecca.” Secondly, your comment is very disjointed, and I am not able to understand what you are trying to say because in the second comment you had added two new words, ‘and guave’. Chopra, R. M., "SUFISM" (Origin, Growth, Eclipse, Resurgence), 2016, Anuradha Prakashan, New Delhi, This page was last edited on 14 February 2021, at 02:22. Sufism known as Tasawwuf in the Arabic-speaking world, is a form of Islamic mysticism that emphasizes introspection and spiritual closeness with the God. Our elders went to talk to them and when they heard the false allegation they asked the British officers to accompany them to the homes of the Muslims who were found sound asleep only to wake up frightened on seeing so many men in uniform. They were saying that they would get second class treatment in a country where they had ruled over the Hindus with ruthless barbarity. In Sufism it is believed that Muhammad (pbuh) is the seal of prophets. That is why the Sikhs –though a group of rosary wielding pious sheep- came up as a militarized group into which came not only Hindus but even Muslims. This is the Most Famous Sufi Shrine… He has been photographing Sufi life in Pakistan since 2006. ( Log Out /  Marvel of Naam Simran: How Does Reciting Name of Waheguru -God Almighty- Work in our Mind and Body, Waheguru -God Almighty- is always present at Harmandir Sahib also called Darbar Sahib or Golden Temple, How Ramji Das became Bhagat Puran Singh of Pingalwara Fame (4th June, 1904 – 5th August, 1992). In the subcontinent, by far the most outstanding among the great Sufi shaykhs was Khwaja Moeenuddin Chishti of Ajmer. roman emperor constantine writes koran after venom of viper a jew Even then many amendments were carried out in respect of treatment to Jews and Christians in the course of the subsequent centuries. [5] The attacks are generally attributed to banned militant organisations. Wed 7/18/2018, 5:11 PM “Sow flowers so your surroundings become a garden.”, “Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.”, “We are all one body. Email: diwang7339@yahoo.com ( Log Out /  For other uses, see, Sunni Ittehad Council: Sunni Barelvi activism against Deobandi-Wahhabi terrorism in Pakistan – by Aarish U. Khan, "At least 100 killed, dozens more injured in blast at Pakistan shrine - police", Pakistan's Sufis Preach Faith and Ecstasy. Makhdoom Sheikh Hamzah, a Sufi Muslim saint, was born to Baba Usman Raina in Tujar Shareef, a village in Kashmir, in 1494. and about your site name, “dontmistakemeforamuslim”,dont worry we wont,you’re not so lucky as to be one,and about the taliban,they are just an extremist outcast group that want to kill at first site,pakistani dont even like them,and you’re talking like we supply them and train them,idiot. Change ). Yet after defeating those valiant Pathans he did not maltreat them in the way Muslims had been maltreating those Hindu kings who were defeated in battle. Throughout Pakistan, you will find hundreds if not thousands of tombs dedicated to Sufi saints. Perhaps because of Pakistan’s reputation as a haven for Islamic terrorists, the reaction of the  International community was slow. I will give you another example. Are you under confident that you people tend to frighten others with threats? Mystical Islam 'under threat' in Pakistan, Steeped in ancient mysticism, the passion of Pakistani Sufis infuriates Taliban, /Sufism-in-Punjab/Sufis faced threatening from punjabi Taliban in Punjab, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sufism_in_Pakistan&oldid=1006661070, Articles needing expert attention with no reason or talk parameter, Articles needing expert attention from August 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, De Bruijn, The Qalandariyyat in Persian Mystical Poetry from Sana'i, in. http://cber.iweb.bsu.edu/research/PakistanFlood.pdf. Tejwant Singh, roman emperor constantine writes koran after venom of viper a jew and guava. http://cber.iweb.bsu.edu/research/PakistanFlood.pdf, http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/77.173.174.95, https://plus.google.com/105335513990119305297. And the general Muslim public was treated with due dignity. I have pasted below both your comments along with the dates for you to compare and, also for everyone else who visits this site to see what you wrote. The first is the 'populist' Sufism of the rural population. Consider the shrine of the poet Rahman Baba, at the foot of the Khyber Pass. But they do say of the Islamic fundamentalists: “Hypocrites who sit there reading their law books and arguing about how long their beards should be, fail to listen to the true message of the prophet.” Perhaps it is time for the world to hear this message as well. Local authorities colluded with the warlords to divert funds intended for rebuilding. Perhaps this is the future for Pakistan  after the floods. The explosion did not destroy the mazar. The Muslims of India were openly talking about their less numbers compared to the Hindus. My family used to reside in Chak 57 Khayala in the then Lyalpur district which is now called Faislabad. With their bodies enshrined within a marble coffin, Muslims from around the city often frequent these ornate darbars to throw flower petals on the grave, recite the Quran, and pray on the floor of the mausoleum. Rahman Baba preached love. Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Clifton, Karachi ; Thatta District. During the saint's lifetime, his cult extended globally: to Britain and Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa. Most holy sites in Sufism are shrines dedicated to various Sufi Saints - spiritually elevated ascetics from various mystical orders within Islam. Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.”. Many rural Pakistani Muslims associate with pirs and seek their intercession. This new militarized group of people was called the Khalsa –this is just to inform you in case you have not read the history of the Sikhs. This has been confirmed to me by a Muslim Air Force officer of the Indian Air Force who had been to Iraq to train their Air Force in the early 1980s and went for Haj. And listening or doing Kirtan obviously have many plus points. I have generally found that when Muslims cannot discuss something like a normal civilized person they lose their cool and start threatening others with dire consequences. If you don’t agree with what I am saying then you should go back in time and read about the time when India’s freedom movement started and the rule of one-person-one vote was coming up as a Democratic system being introduced by the English rulers. They are influenced by the writings of Sufis such as the medieval theologian al-Ghazali, the Sufi reformer Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindi and Shah Wali Allah. The Mughals respected them. Rahman Baba preached love. When Pakistan came into being on 14th August we were not worried although some people uses to caution us that you can’t trust the Muslims. There are two levels of Sufism in Pakistan. But the Christians of West Asia believed in Guru Nanak and they started singing in their Churches. The Shrine of Hazrat Shah Rukn-e-Alam, Multan. He stopped at Baghdad where his place of stay is marked outside the railway station. This Sufi poet is revered by the Pashtuns living on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Officials estimate the total economic impact to be as much as 43 billion USD. However, it was so damaged that it had to be torn down in order for it to be totally rebuilt. YOUR FIRST COMMENT Therefore they the Muslims of that time imagined a threat from the vast Hindu majority and the idea of Pakistan, a homeland for the Muslims cropped up. The few British officers who were there took immediate action and sent a force to investigate. Thank you for finding some time to read through my post and sending your two comments. He is the most famous Sufi Saint in India. [1] The second level of Sufism in Pakistan is 'intellectual Sufism' which is growing among the urban and educated population. The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn The site of his grave is a popular place for poets and mystics to collect to recite his popular poetry. This word has been derived from Sanskrit word ‘Keerti’ meaning ‘Praise’. Of the Muslims in Pakistan, only the Sufis are putting up resistance against the mullahs on behalf of the pluralism. That is the time our elders decided that Pakistan was not destined to be our homeland and they left in a bullock cart caravan. [6], The Sehwan Sharif shrine was the site of a suicide bombing in 2017 carried out by the Islamic State. Nobody dared to touch us on the way because word had spread that the Sikhs of Khayala were a strong force. According to Ewing, from the 14th century onward, Sufi saints, the pirs and the sajjada nasheen enjoyed widespread influence over both Muslim … Ashk Dahlén, The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandariyat of Fakhr al-din Araqi. Do you have any parallel like this in the complete history of Muslim rule anywhere in the world? [2], Sufism, a mystical Islamic tradition, has a long history and a large popular following in Pakistan. We thought this is our homeland and we will live here like we have always lived next to our Muslim neighbors. A Pakistani Air Force officer told me this: “My history teacher used to say that during the Muslim rule in north India, the Sikhs were hunted mercilessly but when they became rulers, they treated their Muslim subjects with due dignity.” Guru Nanak’s missions all over West Asia, within India and towards Southeast Asia including Tibet were to preach that Kirtan is supreme: Kirtan is singing the praises of God Almighty. The Shrine of Bibi Pak Daman (Shrine of the 'Six Holy Ladies') in Lahore, Pakistan. I have heard from people who have been to Iraq that Langar is held there on Friday. Therefore at this difficult juncture in time for the whole world it may be better for Muslims to go back and remove the centuries old dust from Guru Nanak’s Khadawan and do what he said. The sublime beauty of Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple. They went and told the Army Brigade in Lyalpur cantonment that the Sikhs of Khayala village had butchered their minority Muslims and have roasted them alive in tandoors. Sufis believe in pirs or "living saints" who can intercede for them directly with God. Most of the Sufis in Pakistan relate to the four main tariqa (silsila): Chishti, Naqshbandi, Qadiri-Razzaqi and Suhrawardi. The most vocal in this group were former Muslim rulers who had tasted unbridled authority, though a minority over a vast majority. 3: Sufi Saints and Shrines in Pakistan (104 pp.) Indeed, he is generally accepted as the fountainhead of Islamic spiritual movements in India and Pakistan. [7], This article is about post-partition Sufism in Pakistan. Most Islamic fundamentalists criticise its popular character, which in their view, does not accurately reflect the teachings and practice of the Prophet and his companions. Firstly, you seem to be trying to hide by using a different email id for both your comments. If you are waiting for a response from me, then please write grammatically correct English. The Holy shrine of Great sufi saint Hazarat pir syed Jamat Ali Shah (Ameer-e-millat) in Ali Pur Sharief Sialkot. Landowners allowed embankments to burst so as to divert water from their land. Picture yourself you ‘Proud Muslim’ being ordered about by descendants of those same meek Hindus whom your ancestors cruelly treated, worse than even domesticated animals. Traditional Islam and Sufism specifically have, throughout their history, maintained the principle of living with the amazing diversity of India and other countries. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Other villages surrounding us were all Syed or Pathan. A funeral for victims of a suicide bombing targeting Sufi Muslims in Pakistan in February. After that Guru Nanak went to Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and through Syria and eastern Turkey he went up to the southern limits of Russia before coming back. At the age of twenty, Hazrat Nizamuddin went to Ajodhan (Pakpattan Sharif in Pakistan) and became a disciple of the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar (Baba Farid). Najm al-Din Razi (d. 1256) actually claimed that a … WHY DID GURU GOBIND SINGH GO TO NANDED AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? ( Log Out /  More information about Di Wang Rahman Baba‘s tomb is housed in a large domed shrine, or mazar, outside of Peshawar. Sufis and sufism brings life … In Pakistan Muslim shrines have traditionally been maintained by hereditary saints (pirs), who often command a large following.Leaders of Pakistan have felt that the organization of the shrines has been incompatible with their political and religious goals. His book, To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Years Inside Pakistan, will be published May 2009 by Henry Holt. --Early Muslim Saints--Imaginary Assemblies of Sufi Saints--The Great Saint of Baghdad--Indian Chishti Saints--Lal Shahbaz Qalandear—The Enraptured Saint--The Qalandar Heritage--A Millennium of Saints in the Punjab--Shah Abdul Latif—The Mystic and Peot of Sindh Chpt. OBAMA IN INDIA: WILL HE TAKE A STAND AGAINST THE TALIBAN? This has been confirmed to me by a Christian from America whose ancestors had been missionaries in West Asia. But the Muslims of West Asia did not pay heed to Guru Nanak because someone had gone and written in the Koran that music is evil. Di Wang commented on WHY? WordPress And now that our world has become small due to inventions in communication and it is the time for one-person-one vote, Democracy, Human Rights, where every religious belief has the right to exist, where all citizens have the right to express their feelings, where child marriage has no place, where you can’t take away the woman and property of a non-believer (as sanctioned in the Koran), where your barbaric belief has no place: You are feeling threatened and isolated. All the people in our village were Sikhs except for a small section of Muslims who had converted from the lowest caste and they used to work on our farms on yearly contract or as daily labor. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Why is it so? More information about anonymous Thank you for your comments. The students there complained that  women were allowed to pray and seek healing there and eventually the madrasa students placed dynamite around the supports of  the shrine’s dome. (A devotee prays at the shrine of Sufi saint Syed Usman Marwandi in Sehwan Sharif, in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, September 5, 2013. This Sufi poet is revered by the Pashtuns living on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. I don’t know if you are aware that Guru Nanak visited Mecca during his journey towards West Asia.
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