Bande Nawaz

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Muhammad Al-Hussaini
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Dargah of Banda Nawaz
Personal
Born7 August 1321
Died1 November 1422 (aged 101)
ReligionIslam
EthnicityArab
EraIslamic golden age
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi[1]
Main interest(s)Sufism
Muslim leader
Bande Nawaz
NationalityIndian

Muhammad bin Yusuf Al-Hussaini (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422), commonly known as Banda Nawaz Gaisu Daraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi saint from India of the Chishti Order, who advocated understanding, tolerance and harmony among religions.

Gaisu Daraz was a disciple and then successor of Sufi saint Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi. When he moved to Daulatabad around 1400, owing to the attack of Timur on Delhi, he took the Chishti Order to South India.[2] He finally settled down in Gulbarga, at the invitation of Bahmani Sultan, Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah.[3]

Biography[edit]

Dargah Entrance

Al-Hussaini was born to SMuhammad bin Yousuf Al-Hussaini in Delhi in 1321. At the age of four, his family shifted to Daulatabad in Deccan (now in Maharashtra). In 1397, he went to Gulbarga, Deccan (presently in Karnataka) at the invitation of Sultan Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah.[citation needed]

At the age fifteen, he returned to Delhi for his education and training by Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi. He was also a very enthusiastic student of Kethli, Tajuddin Bahadur and Qazi Abdul Muqtadir. After teaching at various places such as Delhi, Mewat, Gwalior, Chander, Aircha, Chatra, Chanderi, Miandhar, Baroda, Khambayat and Gulbarga in 1397 and died in Gulbarga in the year November 1422.[citation needed]

Parentage[edit]

He is a descendant of Ali.[4][5] His forefathers resided in Hirat. One of them came to Delhi and settled down here. His father Muhammad bin Yousuf was born here on 4, Rajab, 721 Hijri.[citation needed]

Sultan Muhammad-bin Tughlaq once transferred his capital to Daulatabad (Devgiri) and along with him went many scholars, theologians, and mystics. His parents also migrated to the place.[citation needed] He was four years at the time Malik-ul-Umar Syed Ibrahim Mustafa AlHashmi, his maternal uncle, was the governor of Daulatabad.[citation needed]

In Delhi[edit]

His father died when he was fifteen. He had heard a lot about Nizam Uddin Auliya and Nasir Uddin Roshan Chiragh Dehlavi from his father and maternal grand father and grew devoted to them. One day he went to perform his prayer in the Jama-Masjid of Sultan Qutub Uddin, there he saw Sheikh Nasir Uddin Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi and pledged obedience to him on 16, Rajab. Under the guidance of Nasir Uddin Chiragh Dehlavi he engaged himself in prayers and meditation and so much enjoyed them that he forbade studies and requested his teacher to allow him to do so. Nasir Uddin denied him permission and instructed him to study with attention Usool-e-Bizoori, Risals Shamsia, Kashaf, Misbah so he restarted the studies under the guidance of various teachers.[citation needed]

AlHussaini left Delhi on December 17, 1398, because the city was under siege by Timur and its fall was imminent.[6]

Title Gesu-Daraaz[edit]

One day he with other disciples lifted the palanquin bearing Nasir Uddin. His long hair stuck into the foot of the palki and pained him severely but he did not disentangle them for love and respect to the teacher. When Nasir Uddin learned of the episode, he was overjoyed and recited the Persian couplet:[citation needed]

"Har ki murid Syed gesu daraaz shud Vallah khilaf-e-nest ki Uoo ishq baaz shud." ("Syed Gesu Daraaz has pledged his obedience; there is nothing wrong in it because he has deeply fallen in love.")

He thus gained the title "Gesu Daraaz".[citation needed]

In Gulbarga[edit]

Having lived for over forty years in Delhi, he moved to Gulbarga at the age of around 76. Firoz Shah Bahmani ruled over the Deccan during this period.[citation needed] He gave him much respect. For a long time he was engaged in religious discourses, sermons, and spiritual training of the people. He stay in Gulbarga for 24 years.[citation needed]

Death[edit]

Bande Nawaz died aged 101 on 16 Dhu al-Qadah 825 Hijri in Gulbarga and was buried there. His tomb is a place of ziyarat.[citation needed]

Works[edit]

Bande Nawaz wrote 195 books in Arabic, Persian and Urdu.[3] He also composed a book on the Prophet of Islam titled Miraj-al Ashiqin for the instruction of the masses in Dakhni, a South Indian branch of the Urdu language. He was the first Sufi to use this vernacular which was elaborated upon by many other Sufi saints of South India in later centuries.[7] He wrote many treatises on the works on Ibn Arabi and Suhrawardi, which made the works of these scholars accessible to Indian scholars and played a major role in influencing later mystical thought.[8] Other books authored are Qaseeda Amali and Adaab-al-Mureedein.

Books[edit]

  • Tafseer-e-Qu'Orane-e-Majeed
  • Multaqit
  • Havashi Kashaf
  • Sharah-e-Mashareq
  • Sharah Fiqah-e-Akbar
  • Sharah Adab-Ul-Murideen
  • Sharah Ta-arruf
  • Risala Sirat-Ul-Nabi
  • Tarjuma Mashareq
  • Ma-Arif
  • Tarjuma Awarif
  • Sharah Fasoosul Hikam
  • Tarjuma Risala Qasherya
  • Hawa Asahi Quwwat-Ul-Qalb

Death anniversary[edit]

His death anniversary takes place on 15, 16 and 17 Dhu al-Qadah at the Bande Nawaz mausoleum in Gulbarga. Several hundred thousand people from different religions gather to seek blessings.[3]

In popular culture[edit]

Indian Muslim social films revolving around the saint and his dargah have been made. These include: Sultan E Deccan: Banda Nawaz (1982) by Malik Anwar, Banda Nawaz (1988) by Saini.[9]

Spiritual lineage[edit]

Sufi orders trace their origins ultimately to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have instructed his successor in mystical teachings and practices in addition to the Qur'an or hidden within the Qur'an. Opinions differ as to this successor. Almost all Sufi orders trace their origins to 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's cousin, whom the Shi'a regard as the first imam. The Chishti, though Sunni, trace their lineage through Ali. This is not unusual for Sufi orders, which tend to stress devotion rather than legalism and sectarianism. The traditional silsila (spiritual lineage) of the Chishti order is as follows:

  1. Muḥammad
  2. Ali ibn Abu Talib
  3. Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728, an early Persian Muslim theologian)
  4. Abdul Wāḥid Bin Zaid Abul Faḍl (d. 793, an early Sufi saint)
  5. Fuḍayl ibn 'Iyāḍ Bin Mas'ūd Bin Bishr al-Tamīmī
  6. Ibrāhīm bin Adham (a legendary early Sufi ascetic)
  7. Khwaja Sadid ad-Din Huzaifa al-Marashi Basra Iraq
  8. Abu Hubayra al-Basri Basra Iraq
  9. Khwaja Mumshad Uluw Al Dīnawarī
  10. Abu Ishaq Shamī (d. 940, founder of the Chishti order proper)
  11. Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti
  12. Abu Muḥammad Chishti
  13. Abu Yusuf Nasar-ud-Din Chishtī
  14. Qutab-ud-Din Maudood Chishtī
  15. Haji Sharif Zindani (d. 1215)
  16. Usman Harooni (d. 1220)
  17. Mu'īnuddīn Chishtī (Moinuddin Chishti) (1141-1230 or 1142–1236)
  18. Qutab-ud-Din Bakhtyar Kaki (1173-1228)
  19. Farīduddīn Mas'ūd ("Baba Farid", 1173 or 1175 - 1266)
  20. Nizāmuddīn Auliyā (“Awliya”; 1238 – 3 April 1325)
  21. Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi (1274–1337)
  22. Bande Nawaz Gezu Daraz (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Nawaz, Bande. Tafseer-Al-Multaqat. Vol. 1. Maktabah Nafais al-Quran. p. 6.
  2. Jihad in the East: A Crescent Over Delhi The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity, by M. J. Akbar. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-28470-8. Page 111.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Urs-e-Sharief of Khwaja Bande Nawaz in Gulbarga from tomorrow "The Hindu", 27 November 2007.
  4. "شجرہ مبارک". alhassanain.com. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  5. Administrator. "Shajra Tul Ashraaf". www.al-arif.org. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  6. Eaton, Richard (2005). A Social History of The Deccan 1300–1761, Eight Indian Lives. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51442-2.
  7. Mystical Dimensions of Islam By Annemarie Schimmel, Pg 351
  8. Irfan Habib, S. (October 2002). "Book reviews and notices : M.T. ANSARI, ed., Secularism, Islam and modernity. Selected essays of Alam Khundmiri. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001. 308 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 250 (paperback)". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 36 (3): 568–570.
  9. Screen World Publication's 75 Glorious Years of Indian Cinema: Complete Filmography of All Films (silent & Hindi) Produced Between 1913-1988. Screen World Publication. 1988. p. 85.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Askari, Syed Hasan, Tazkira-i Murshidi—Rare Malfuz of the 15th-Century Sufi Saint of Gulbarga. Proceedings of the Indian Historical Records Commission (1952).
  • Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Gisudaraz on Wahdat al-Wujud. Studies in Islam 19 (1982), pp. 233–45.
  • Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni Gisu Daraz: On Sufism Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1985.
  • Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Shuhud vs. Wujud: A Study of Gisudiraz Islamic Culture 59 (1985), pp. 323–39.
  • Siddiqi, Mohd. Sulaiman, Syed Mohd. al-Husaini Gisudaraz Islamic Culture 52 (1978), pp. 173–84.

External links[edit]

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