Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri

Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri
সৈয়দ রশীদ আহমদ জৌনপুরি
Personal
Born25 December 1889[citation needed]
Mollatuli, Jaunpur, India
Died5 September 2001(2001-09-05) (aged 111)
Resting placeBaitur Rahim Masjid, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
ReligionIslam
MovementBarelvi
RelativesKaramat Ali Jaunpuri (maternal grandfather)
Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (maternal uncle)
Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (maternal uncle)
Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (maternal cousin)
Muslim leader
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Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (Bengali: সৈয়দ রশীদ আহমদ জৌনপুরী; 1889–2001) was a Sufi saint,[1] author, scholar of Hadith and Quran, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh. He was influenced by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi and his Barelvi movement.[2]

He also written Urdu ghazals, nazm, hamd and naat, his Pen name being Fani.[3] As a Sufi master he was initiated in Qadiriyya,[4] Chishti, Naqshbandi, Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya, Shadhili, Uwaisi, Qalandariyya, Saberiyya and Nizamiyya orders.

His teachings stated that Islam was a unified whole of shariat (exoteric path), tariqa (esoteric path), haqiqat (mystical truth), and marefat (final mystical knowledge), and was incomplete without any one of these.[5] He refused to depend on charity, and lived in Bangladesh almost incognito.[6]

  1. ^ Rashid, M Harunur (2005). Quran Hadith of Sufitatter Bhumika. Dhaka: Syed Rashid Ahmed Mission Foundation.
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  3. ^ Rashid, M Harunur (2002). Swapner Moroke Ichchar Basabas. Dhaka: Anupam Prakashani.
  4. ^ Haq, Muhammad Enamul (1975). A History of Sufi-Ism in Bengal. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. p. 50. OCLC 2188829.
  5. ^ Rashid, M Harunur (1997). Ichchaheen Ghare Ichchar Bashabash Ebang Annanya Sanglap [Desire in a Desireless Abode and Other Dialogues: A Book of dialogues illustrating the Philosophy of Hazrat Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaupuri]. Dhaka: Lamisa Books.
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