Hazrat Ishaan

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Hazrat Bahauddin Naqshband and Sayyid Alauddin Atar (Uwaisiyyah line)
SuccessorMir Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband, Sayyid Mir Jan (Uwaisiyyah line)

Hazrat Ishaan Mahmud bin Sharif bin Zia bin Muhammad bin Tajuddin bin Hussein bin Zahra binte

Bahauddin Naqshband's Sufi Order, the Naqshbandiyya

Biography

Family

Hazrat Ishaan was the second son of Khwaja Sayyid Mir Sharifuddin son of Ziauddin son of Muhammad son of Tajuddin son of Hussein son of Zahra daughter of Bahauddin Naqshband[1] Damrel additionally highlights Mahmuds maternal descent from Ahmad Yasavi and Imam Hussein and thus his direct bilateral descent from Muhammad.[2]

Spiritual journey

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 Shah Saheb has received a letter to visit his father and to accompany him in his last days.

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 mausoleum.[14][15][16]

A number of notable figures are buried in the complex of Hazrat Ishaan’s tomb, for example Javed Iqbal (judge, born 1924), members of the Ferozsons family, and some members of Afghan royalty.

Succession

Hazrat Ishaan was succeeded by his son Moinuddin Naqshabnd in Kashmir.[17] 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 has been found, that Hazrat Sayyid Mir Jan is this person, who is his successor in the Uwaisiyyah transmissional way.

His successor was Sayyid ul Sadaat Hazrat Sayyid Mir Jan.[18][19]

Descendants

Notable descendants of Mahmud include:

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ David Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 19
  2. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 21
  3. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 50, l. 13-15
  4. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 50, l. 15-17
  5. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 51, l. 3
  6. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 6, l. 5
  7. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 59, l. 17-20
  8. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 60, l. 1
  9. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 60, l. 7-11
  10. ^ Damrel in Forgotten Grace, p. 61, l. 17-20, p. 62, l. 1, 2
  11. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  12. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  13. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  14. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  15. ^ 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
  16. ^ Gacek and Pstrusinska in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, published by Cambridge scholar Press, p. 151
  17. ^ "the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann;company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)
  18. ^ Sufi Sheikhs of Pakistan and Afghanistan
  19. ^ Nicholson, Reynold (2000). Kashf al-Mahjub of al-Hajvari. E. J. W. Gibb Memorial.