Muhammad Ghawth
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Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari a Sufi master of the Shattari order, the author of Jawahir-i Khams (Arabic al-Jawahir al-Khams: The Five Jewels)
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Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari was a son of Sayyid Hazir al-din (misspelled Khatir al-Din) Bayazid son of Khawajah Farid al-Attar son of Sima Wasil son of Ahmad al-Sadiq son Najibuddin Taqiyuddin son of Nur Allah Abu Bakr al-Ajli son of Ismail son of Ja'far al-Sadiq son of Muhammad al-Baqir son of Zayn al-Abidin son of Husayn son of Ali ibn Abi Talib.
He was born probably in 906 AH (1500 CE)
In the preface of al-Jawahir al-Khams, he states that he wrote the book when he was 25 years old. In 956 A.H. (1549) he travelled to Gujarat, when he was 50 years old.
Among his disciples is Fazl Allah Shattari.
He died in 1563 CE.
[edit] His work
- Jawahir-i-Khamsa (The five jewels) which was later translated to Arabic, al-Jawahir al-Khams, by The Mecca-based Shattari teacher sibghat Allah (d. 1606).
- Bahr al-Hayat (The ocean of life), his translation of Hawd al-Hayat (The pool of life) an Arabic translation of Amrtakunda, the Sanskrit Yoga book.
