Talk:Moinuddin Chishti

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This latest edit is repetitive. e.g. his birthplace is in the first and last paragraphs. Also, there is a contradiction where you say "Khwaja Moinuddin apparently never wrote down his teachings in the form of a book... Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti authored several books including ‘Anis al-Arwah’ and ‘Daleel al-Arefeen’ both of them dealing with Islamic code of living."

These paragraphs:

Khwaja Qutbuddin Baktiyar Kaki (d. 1235) and Hamiduddin Nagori (d. 1276) were Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti’s celebrated khalifas or disciples who continued transmitting the teachings of their master through their disciples, leading to the widespread proliferation of the Chistiyya order in India.

Among Khawaja Qutbuddin Baktiyar’s prominent disciples was Fariduddin Ganj-i-Shakar (d. 1265), whose dargah is at Pakpattan (Pakistan). And Fariduddin’s most famous disciple was Nizamuddin Aulia (d. 1325) popularly referred to as Mahboob-i-Ilahi (God’s beloved) whose dargah is located in old Delhi.

From Delhi the disciples branched out to establish dargahs in several regions of India – from Sindh (now Pakistan) in the west to Bengal (now part Bangladesh) in the east and the Deccan in the south. But from all the network of Chisti dargahs Ajmer dargah took on the special distinction of being the ‘mother’ dargah of them all.

...deal with Khawaja Sahb's successors, not himself, so should either go in other articles or in a separate section. In the meantime I will try to make links where any of them already have articles.

I also don't understand why you removed my sentence "Eventually Moinuddin Chishti settled in Ajmer, India, after he said that the Prophet Muhammad had told him in a dream to spread Islam to India." This is my understanding of the story, as told by Dr Hasan Zahurul Sharib of the Gudri Shahi Sufi order. It would be unsuitable in an encyclopedia to describe it as "he was told by the Prophet to settle in...", but it is surely fine to say that Khawaja sahb himself made this claim. Gwaka Lumpa 18:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Tag

I appreciate that it can be difficult for people whose first language is not English, but this section is deficient in grammar and hard to understand. I also do not think it should be in an article on Khawaja Sahb, because it is not about him. Why not move it to its own article? Gwaka Lumpa 11:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting unexplained blanking

I have reverted the unexplained blanking of "Descendant And Sajjada Nashin Dargah Moinuddin chishti". I'm not sure that this was intentional. If it was intentional, I think some explanation is in order. I don't know the subject well, but I think the deleted section is rather questionable, and it might deserve permanent deletion. Even so, some explanation would be useful to other editors.--Nemonoman 06:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I still can't understand a word of that section, and suggest it be cleaned up and moved to a separate article Gwaka Lumpa 16:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I am going to delete it, as it doesn't seem to contain much useful information for the article. It is about someone who claims being a descendant of Moinuddin Chishti and nothing more. I don't see how this is of any value to the article. The fact that it is all praise, and written in unintelligible English doesn not help either. --Barastert 21:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)