Khwaja Hasan Nizami

Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Born
Hasan Nizami

(1878-01-06)6 January 1878
Delhi, India
DiedJuly 31, 1955(1955-07-31) (aged 77)
New Delhi, India
Other namesHasan Nizami
OccupationWriter
Known forPoetry, Sufi tariqa
TitleKhawaja
SuccessorKhwaja Hasan Sani Nizami
ChildrenKhwaja Hasan Sani Nizami

Khwaja Hasan Nizami (6 January 1878-31 July 1955) was an Indian Sufi saint and a known Urdu essayist and humorist and satirist who wrote many essays for the Mukhzun Akhbar magazine.[1][2][3][4] He wrote more than 60 books including the incidents of Indian Rebellion of 1857, while Mulla Wahidi writes that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his credit.[5][6] Being a Sufi he had many disciples and it appeared in his literature.[citation needed]

His maternal grandfather Ghulam Hasan Chisti was a friend and spiritual advisor to Bahadur Shah Zafar and frequently visited the Red Fort.[7] His mother used to tell him the stories of the Mughal family she had heard from her father. He had himself met Kulsum Zamani Begum, Zafar's daughter. He has narrated the tragic stories of Mirza Nasir-ul-Mulk, Zafar's grandson, who eventually became a servant of a British family and later crawled on his knees and begged in Bazar Chitli Kabr. Mirza Kamar Sultan, another of Zafar's grandson also used to beg at the Jama Masjid.

  1. ^ Ernst, C.; Lawrence, B. (30 April 2016). Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-09581-7.
  2. ^ By Amaresh Datta (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2. ISBN 9788126011940.
  3. ^ Ilmi Encyclopaedia of General Knowledge. 1979.
  4. ^ Tully, Mark (22 November 2017). India In Slow Motion. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-5118-097-5.
  5. ^ Naqvi, 1978.
  6. ^ Safvi, Khwaja Hasan Nizami & Rana. "How Bahadur Shah Zafar's daughter had to flee from Delhi after he lost his empire". The Scroll. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  7. ^ Mughlon Ke Antim Din, Khwaja Hasan Nizami, Sahitya Mandal, 1933, p. 12