Sufi saint and poet (1274–1356)
Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi (Urdu نصیرالدین چراغ دہلوی )[ 2] (c. 1274 –1337) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order . He was a disciple of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya ,[ 3] and later his successor.[ 4] [ 5] He was the last important Sufi of the Chishti Order from Delhi .[ 6]
Dehlavi's followers called him "Roshan Chirag-e-Delhi", which in Persian , means "Illuminated Lamp of Delhi ".[ 7]
^ [Monumented on the gate at Hazrat Nasiruddin Chirag Mausoleum his resting place]
^ Hazrat NasirudDin Mahmud. Entitled Raushan Chiragh-i-Dihli Sufi Saints of Delhi.
^ Nizamuddin Auliya Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Ain-i-Akbari , by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak . English tr. by Heinrich Blochmann and Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett, 1873–1907. The Asiatic Society of Bengal , Calcutta , Volume III, Saints of India. (Awliyá-i-Hind), page 365. "many under his direction attained to the heights of sanctity, such as Shaykh Naṣíru'ddín Muḥammad Chirágh i Dihlí , Mír Khusrau , Shaykh Aláu'l Ḥaḳḳ, Shaykh Akhí Siráj, in Bengal , Shaikh Wajíhu'ddín Yúsuf in Chanderi , Shaykh Yạḳúb and Shaykh Kamál in Malwah , Mauláná Ghiyáṣ, in Dhár, Mauláná Mughíṣ, in Ujjain , Shaykh Ḥusain, in Gujarat , Shaykh Burhánu'ddín Gharíb, Shaykh Muntakhab, Khwájah Ḥasan, in the Dekhan ."
^ Khalifa List of Successors of Nizamuddin Auliya , "Moinuddin Chishti " official website.
^ "Great Sufi Saints" . Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008 .
^ "CRACKIAS - Performance of Red Books for GS PRELIMS In UPSC 2020" . www.crackias.com . Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
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