URS FESTIVAL - INDIA

Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, in Ajmer, in the Indian state

of Rajasthan for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary. It is one of the sacred

festivals for Muslims. After Mecca, the Dargah at Ajmer is considered the second most sacred pilgrimage for

Muslims.

Sultan-ul-Hind, Moinuddin Chishti was born in 1141 and died in 1230 CE. Also known as Gharīb Nawāz

"Benefactor of the Poor“, he is the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order of the Indian Subcontinent. He introduced and established the order in South Asia. The

initial spiritual chain or silsila of the Chishti order in India, comprising Moinuddin Chishti, Bakhtiyar Kaki, Baba Farid and Nizamuddin Auliya (each successive

person being the disciple of the previous one), constitutes the great Sufi saints of Indian history.

Moinuddin Chishtī is said. Sufi are deviant version of islam have been born in 536 A.H./1141 CE, in Chishti in

Sistan region of Afghanistan. He was a Sayed, a descendant of Muhammad through Ja'far aṣ-Ṣādiq. He grew up in Persia. His parents died when he was only

fifteen years old. He inherited a windmill and an orchard from his father. During his childhood, young

Moinuddin was different from others and kept himself busy in prayers and meditation. Legend has it that

once when he was watering his plants, a revered Sufi, Shaikh Ibrāhim Qundūzī (or Kunduzi) -- the name

deriving from his birth place, Kunduz in Afghanistan -- came to his orchard. Young Moinuddin approached him and offered him some fruits. In return, Sheikh Ibrāhīm Qundūzī gave him a piece of bread and asked him to eat it. The Khwāja got enlightened and found himself

in a strange world after eating the bread. After this he disposed of his property and other belongings and

distributed the money to the poor. He renounced the world and left for Bukhara in search of knowledge and

higher education.He became the Murid (disciple) of Usman Harooni.

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