Usman Serajuddin
Akhi `Uthmān Sirāj ad-Dīn Āinā-e-Hind | ||
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| Born | c. 1258 Hanafi | |
| Relatives | Alaul Haq (son-in-law) Nur Qutb Alam (grandson) | |
| Order | Chishti Order | |
| Senior posting | ||
| Teacher | Fakhruddin Zarradi, Ruknuddin, Nizamuddin Auliya | |
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Epithet (Laqab) Siraj ad-Din | سراج الدين | |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Bangali البنغالي Gauri/Al-Ghawri گوڑی/الغوري | |
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ʿUthmān Sirāj ad-Dīn al-Bangālī (
Early life and education
As a young man, Siraj travelled to Delhi where he studied under prominent Muslim personalities. Siraj studied with Nizāmuddin and took lessons from Mawlānā Rukn ad-Din, studying Kafiah, Mufassal, the Mukhtaṣar of al-Qudurī and Majma'a-ul Bahrain.
Later life
After receiving khilafat, Siraj remained in Delhi in the company of his mentor Nizamuddin for four years, though continuing to return to Bengal to see his mother once a year. Prior to his death in 1325, Nizamuddin ordered Siraj to return to Bengal to preach. Siraj was present at the bedside of Nizamuddin when he died in 1325 AD. He stayed in Delhi until 1328–1329, at which point he departed for Gaur after the Sultan
After resettling down in Bengal, Siraj was made the court scholar of Bengal under the government of the
He lived and worked in Bengal for the rest of his life and he also married. One of his daughters later married his disciple, Alaul Haq. Amir Khurd, his fellow student, said that he won great esteem from the people of Bengal and "illumined the whole region with his spiritual radiance." Siraj buried the khirqa he received from Nizamuddin in the northwestern corner of the Sagar Dighi,
Death and legacy
In 1357, Akhi Siraj died and was buried in a suburb of Lakhnauti called Sadullahpur. Siraj was succeeded by Alaul Haq.
It is said that he buried the khirqa (robes) that he had received from Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya in the north-western corner of the Sagar Dighi (reservoir) and ordered that he be buried close to that piece of cloth. He was interred near his buried robes according to his wishes, and a mausoleum was erected over his grave. The date of construction of the mausoleum is not known, but two inscriptions attached to its gateways show that the gateways were erected in the 16th century by Sultan Alauddin Husain Shah and later Sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah. Husain Shah built a siqayah (water fountain) at the mausoleum too. His urs is commemorated annually on Eid al-Fitr (1st and 2nd Shawwaal) and his tomb is still visited by many today. During this event, Jahaniyan Jahangasht's flag (which is kept in Jalaluddin Tabrizi's dargah) and Nur Qutb Alam's handprint are taken to Siraj's mausoleum.[5]
Sources
- Siyar-ul-Auliya p. 368-452
- Akhbar-ul-Akhyar p. 162-3
- Mir'at-ul-Israr p.888-91
See also
- Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
- Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
- Sufi Saints of South Asia
References
- ^ "Biography of Akhi Siraj Aainae Hind Sufi from Gour Lakhnauti". www.akhisirajuddin.simplesite.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Gaur". bharatonline.com. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Mudassar, MHK (ed.), حیات قطب عالمؒ [Life of Qutb Alam] (in Urdu)
- 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi. Akhbarul Akhyar.
- ^ OL 30677644M. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ Hanif, N (2000). Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia. Prabhat Kumar Sharma, for Sarup & Sons. p. 35.
- ^ Singh, NK, ed. (2002). Sufis of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan. pp. 72–73.
- . p. 823.
Further reading
- 'Siyar-ul-Auliya' by Sayyid Muhammad bin Mubarak Kirmani first published in 1302H/1885AD from Muhibbe Hind Delhi.
- 'Lataife-Ashrafi' (Discourses of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani), Compiled by Nizam Yemeni, Edited and annotated by Syed Waheed Ashraf and published in 2010
- 'Akhbarul Akhyar' By Abdul Haqq Muhaddith Dehlwi [d.1052H-1642 CE ]. A short biography of the prominent Sufis of India have been mentioned in this book including that of Akhi Siraj Aainae Hind.
- 'Miratul Asrar' by Syed Abdur-Rahman Chishti Abbasi Alavi
- 'Hayate Makhdoom Syed ISBN 978-93-85295-54-6, Maktaba Jamia Ltd, Shamshad Market, Aligarh 202002, India