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Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1] In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ...
He is India's third most influential Sufi saint after Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. [ 6 ] His father Sultan Ibrahim Noorbaksh was the local ruler of Semnan. [ 7 ]
His procedure was to approach the chief of a Sufi group and say, 'Teach me your method, share it with me. If you will not, I invite you to share mine.'" [ 1 ] One of the order's distinguished masters was the 16th century Sufi, [ 7 ] Shah Muhammad Ghawth (d. 1562/3 C.E.) (14th Ramadan 970 hijri).
Muhammad Ghawth (Ghouse, [1] Ghaus or Gwath [2] [3]) Gwaliyari (1500–1562) was a 16th-century Sufi master of the Shattari order and Sufi saint, a musician, [4] and the author of Jawahir-i Khams (Arabic: al-Jawahir al-Khams, The Five Jewels). The book mentioning the life and miracles of Gaus named " Heaven's witness" was written by Kugle.
Sufism had left a prevailing impact on religious, cultural, and social life in South Asia. The mystical form of Islam was introduced by Sufi saints. [76] Sufi scholars traveling from all over continental Asia were instrumental and influential in the social, economic, and philosophic development of India.
The Sufis is one of the best known books on Sufism by the writer Idries Shah.First published in 1964 with an introduction by Robert Graves, it introduced Sufi ideas to the West in a format acceptable to non-specialists at a time when the study of Sufism had largely become the reserve of Orientalists.
Ibrahim's family was either from Persian nobles of the region or from Arab origins from Kufa in what is now Iraq.He was born in Balkh, now in Afghanistan.Most prominent sources and writers traced his lineage back to Abdallah al-Aftah, the son of Ja'far al-Sadiq, himself the son of Muhammad al-Baqir, and the great-great-grandson of Husayn ibn Ali.
St. John or Saint John [3] is a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The town of St. John has homes in St. John Township, Hanover Township, and Center Township. It is a southeastern suburb of Chicago. St. John was founded in 1837. The population was 14,850 at the 2010 census. In 2009, St. John ranked 48th among CNN's top 100 places to ...