Hazrat Ishaan
Khawand Mahmud | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Khawand Mahmud | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1563 |
| Died | 4 November 1642 (aged 79) |
| Children | Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband |
| Parent | Sayyid Mir Sharif Naqshbandi |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Muslim leader | |
| Predecessor | Khwaja Ishaq Dahbidi Khwaja Bahauddin Naqshband (Uwaisiyya influence) |
| Successor | Mir Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband Sayyid Mir Jan (Uwaisiyya influence) |
Hazrat Ishaan Khawand Mahmud (1563 — 4 November 1642) was an influential Sunni saint from Bukhara, Uzbekistan and descendant of his ancestor Bahauddin Naqshband, who founded the Naqshbandi Sufi order.
Biography
[edit]Spiritual journey
[edit]Hazat Ishaan was granted permission from his father to study in a royal college and had become an accomplished scholar. In the age of 23 years Hazrat Ishaan has received a letter to visit his father and to accompany him in his last days.[1] Upon his father's death, he concentrated on his quest.[2] In this he first left to Wakhsh,[3] where he became Shaykh al-Islam, performing his duties there.[4] While staying in Wakhsh, he got to know Khwaja Hajji.[5] They have met a second time in Balkh, where Khwaja Hajji has introduced him to his future master Khwaja Ishaq Dahbidi and has become his disciple.[6] He met him the second time in Bokhara and has become his disciple.[7] After twelve years of spiritual training Hazrat Ishaan Saheb has reached the level of a Sufi Shaykh in 1598.[8] Khwaja Ishaq Dahbidi has welcomed him, and upon hearing the advice of Khwaja Ishaq Dahbidi, he travelled towards Lahore. Instead, he arrived in Srinagar, Kashmir. In Srinagar he attracted many people, who have later followed him. The fame of his piety has reached many areas of Central Asia.[9]
Influence
[edit]Khawand Mahmud has hundreds of thousands of disciples in what is now Afghanistan, especially in the cities of Kandahar, Kabul and Herat. He has sent disciples in all over Central Asia, and 2 have been sent to Tibet. Unlike other Naqshbandi Masters, he attracted many different people.[10] Khawand Mahmud was invited by the Moghul Emperor Jahangir to attend to his court in Agra. Attending there several times, he was able to create firm connections to the court, because Jahangir was a disciple of his. Jahangir firmly believed in him, being taught by his father Akbar that he was born through Hazrat Ishaan's prayers, when Akbar desperately wished to have a child.[11] Becoming entangled in the struggle against the Shia community there, Moghul emperor Shah Jahan evacuated him in year 1636 to Delhi. Hazrat Ishaan spent his last six years in Lahore, where Jahangir's son Shah Jahan has built a palace for him, that later became his shrine.[12][13][14]
Succession
[edit]Hazrat Ishaan was succeeded by his son Moinuddin Naqshband in Kashmir.[15] His youngest son Bahauddin succeeded his father in Lahore in a very young age. His spiritual line died out in the late eighteenth century. Hazrat Ishaan has stated that one of his progeny will come to revive his lineage and to take his place as Ghawth. It is believed that Sayyid Mir Jan is this person, who is his successor through Uwaisiyya influence.[16][17]
Descendants
[edit]Notable descendants of Mahmud include:
- Sayyid Mir Jan (1800–1901)
Gallery
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Dargah of Hazrat Ishaan after the renovation efforts of Masood Dakik -
Graves of Hazrat Ishaan and his descendants after 8 generations Sayyid Mir Jan and Mir Mahmud Shah -
Mosque of the Mausoleum of Hazrat Ishaan after the renovation done by Masood Dakik
See also
[edit]- Abdul Qadir Jilani
- Sultan Sadaat Sayyid Ali Akbar
- Ali Hujwiri
- Bahauddin Naqshband
- Moinuddin Chishti
- Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab
- Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband
- Sayyid Mir Jan
References
[edit]- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 50, l. 13-15
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 50, l. 15-17
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 51, l. 3
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 6, l. 5
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 59, l. 17-20
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 60, l. 1
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 60, l. 7-11
- ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 61, l. 17-20, p. 62, l. 1, 2
- ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
- ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
- ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
- ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
- ^ Muzaffar Alam in The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750, published by SUNY Press, section: The return of the Naqshbandis
- ^ Gacek and Pstrusinska in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, published by Cambridge scholar Press, p. 151
- ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
- ^ Sufi Sheikhs of Pakistan and Afghanistan
- ^ Nicholson, Reynold (2000). Kashf al-Mahjub of al-Hajvari. E. J. W. Gibb Memorial.