He is one of the most outstanding figures in the history of Islamic Sufism.
The Chistiya Silsila is one of the most popular and influential Sufi orders in Islam.
It derives its name from Chist, a village near Heerat, Afghanistan, where the founder of the Order, Khawaja Abu Ishaq (Rahmatullahi alaihi) of Syria, settled. Hadrat Khawaja Muniuddin Chisti (Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu) brought the Silsila to India at the close of the 11th century A.D. and established its centre in Ajmer, whence the order spread far and wide in India and became a force in the spiritual life of the Muslims.
Hazrat Khawaja Muniuddin Chisti (Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu) was born in 536 A.H./1141 A.D. at a place called Sanjar, in Sijistan (Persia or present-day Iran).
He was in the ct lineage of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad (Salla Allahu ta'ala alayhi wa Sallam) being paternally descended from the Beloved Prophet’s grandson, Imam Hussain (Radi allahu ta'ala anhu) and maternally from the Beloved Prophet’s grandson, Imam Hasan (Radi allahu ta'ala anhu). Thus he is a Hasani and a Husayni Sayyad.
He was brought up in Khorasan, Iran and received his early education at home from his father, Hadrat Sayyad Gheyasuddin (Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu) At the age of 9 ; he committed the Qur’an al-kareem to memory.
He was 16 yrs old when his father passed into the realm of Divine Beauty; he inherited a grinding stone and an orchard, which formed a source of his livelihood.
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