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THE KHAN KHANAN AND HIS PAINTERS, ILLUMINATORS AND CALLIGRAPHERS- M. MAHFUZ UL HAQ .

2. Bahbood – He was a Khasa Khail of the Khan Khanan. Formerly he was a

Islamic Culture Journal

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hazrat ghaus gvaliyri aur yog par unki kitab "bahr ul hayat"

Suman Mishra

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Murshid-e-Yagana, Faiz Bakhsh-e-Zamana, Hazrat Syedna Faiz-ur-Rasool

23) Hazrat Ashraf Jaha'ngir Samnani (d. 1386)
24) Hazrat Abdul Razzaq Noor-ul-Ain (d. 1467)

Kaleem Athar

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Malfuzat : An Analysis of the criticism on Anees-ul-Arwah

a. The author of ‘Mirat-ul-Asrar’ referred ‘Anees-ul-Arwah’8 in many places he quoted the text of ‘Anees-ul-Arwah’. In one place he quoted the third assembly of the ‘Anees-ul-Arwah’9.
b. The author of ‘Akhbar-ul-Jamal’ referred and quoted the text of Anees-ul-Arwah in the chapter of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for compiling his accounts. 10

Aatif Kazmi

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Nizamuddin Auliya: Amir Khusrau’s soul

This issue of music had been boiling among the irritable Ulama. They wanted it banned. The

Meher Murshed

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Rang De, Amir Khusrau’s ode to Nizamuddin Auliya, by Chand Tara Orchestra moves the heart

Nizamuddin smiled and replied: “Yes, indeed, since they lack taste, how can they listen to it.

Meher Murshed

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If rain can grow sugarcane, man can realize the Divine – the story of Sheikh Muhibullah

Coyness and that amorous glance,
Needless to say the Ulama grumbled and groaned – Sheikh Muhibullah was preaching a doctrine that was heinous. They frowned, but the Sheikh was unruffled, not a muscle in his face moved. How many Sufi masters before had been targeted by the viciousness of the Ulama? A fatwa was issued against him and he was condemned for heresy.

Meher Murshed

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Characteristics of the Chishtia Silsila - Maikash Akbarabadi

Saifinat-ul-Auliya.

Maikash Akbarabadi

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Hazrat Syed Fariduddin Tavela Bukhsh Chishti

Hazrat Akhi Siraj (Aina-e-Hind)
Hazrat Ala-ul-Haq Pandvi

Syed Yusuf Shahab

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Chandar Bhan Brahman-Iqbal Husain

Saib, one of the greatest Persian poets, incorporated Brahman’s verses in his personal anthology of verses. This was the greatest compliment that a poet like Saib could pay to Brahman.
Brahman in his Letters’ enumerates seven of his works, viz. (1) Divan consisting of Ghazals and Mathnawi, (2) Guldasta, (3) Chahar Chaman (4) Tuhfat-ul-Anwar (5) Karnama. (6) Tuhfat-ul-Fusaha, and (7) Majma’-ul-Fuqara.

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What is Sufism ? – Mir Valiuddin

The Companions of the Left-Hand (Ashab-ul-Mash’ama);And
Those nearest to God (Muqarrabin).

Islamic Culture Journal

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Kabir as Depicted in the Persian Sufistic and Historical Works- Dr. Qamaruddin

Live so with good and bad that after thy death, the Musalmans may wish to bury and the Hindus to burn thee (according to their rites).
The eighteenth century author of lqtabas-ul-Anwar writes on the authority of Mir’at-ul-Asrar by Abdur-Rehman Chishti of Amethi that,

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Nizamuddin Auliya: The Darwesh of Love

The family found an inn, which only allowed women to stay. Bibi Zulaikha and Nizamuddin’s sister,

Meher Murshed

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An Apple that ravaged a Sufi’s soul

The couple led a content married life. They had a son called Abdul Qader. He would grow be to be known as Gaus-ul-Azam. But that is another story.

Meher Murshed

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TASAWWUF AND MODERN RESEARCH – KHAJA KHAN.

By loving and worshipping God, man’s nafs attains to the stage of Mutma’inna which is addressed thus:
“Ya iyyahal-nafs-ul-Mutmainnatu irjii ila rabbika raziyatam murziyya fadkhuli fi’ibadi wa’d khull jannati”

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Hazrat Imam-e-Rabbani Sheikh Ahmad Farooqi Sirhindi

During this period, Muslims in India had lost the knowledge of true Islam and had started

Syed Yusuf Shahab

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Baba Farid: Bringing happiness to the human heart

The master was teaching Sheikh Shahabuddin Suhrawardi’s Awarif-ul-Ma’arif, regarded as a manual for Sufis wanting to

Meher Murshed

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Life, times and Sufi poetry of Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelvi

Shah Niyaz believes in the Sufi doctrine of Wahdat-ul-Wujood. It signifies that there is only one reality in existence. Everything else is a form of that reality.
Aalam kahe his ko jahaan yaani jahaan-e-jism-o-jaan

Mustaqim Parwez

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Basant: The day hope lived in Nizamuddin Auliya again

On the first day of the new moon, all the nobles and Ulama had to offer

Meher Murshed