Fawaid ul Fuad
and it is said that he made the copy, from which he read,
with his own hand.
Maulana Burhanuddin Gharib was yet another
khalifah
. He too was
compelled to leave Delhi for Daulatabad. He became so well-known in the
Deccan that Sultan Nasir Khan Faruqi (1399-1437), a ruler of Khandesh,
later on built a town called Burhanpur in his name and made it his capital.
Maulana Burhanuddin is credited with having invented a new style of
dancing during the ritual of
sama’
, which later on came to be known as
Burhani.
Shaykh Akhi Sirajuddin Usman, was born in Lakhnauti in Bengal, and
the story goes that when he came first to Delhi he was so young that he did
not even have the shadow of a beard. He stayed in the
jamaat khana
of
Shaykh Nizamuddin and was finally appointed his
khalifah
in spite of the
initial reluctance on the part of the Shaykh to bestow the honour on him, as
Akhi Sirajuddin was not well educated. After completing his studies, he
left Delhi and went back to Lakhnauti. There he gained a great number of
converts from all strata of society, including the rulers of Bengal.
Nasiruddin Muhammad Chiragh Dilli
Shaykh Nasiruddin Mahmud (1276-1356) was the most prominent of
the
khalifas
of Nizamuddin Auliya. He was also his chief successor in Delhi
and was popularly known as the
Chiragh-i-Dilli
(The Lamp of Delhi). He
was born inAwadh in 1276. His father, who was an affluent wool merchant,
died when he was nine years old. His mother wanted him to become an
alim,
but he was not interested in his studies and his heart was set on
asceticism. By the time he was 25 years old, he was already deep into Sufi
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