Sharaqpur

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Sharaqpur
General Information
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Coordinates	31°27′31.39″N 74°06′13.44″E / 31.4587194, 74.1037333Coordinates: 31°27′31.39″N 74°06′13.44″E / 31.4587194, 74.1037333
Elevation	196 m (643 ft) AMSL
Calling code	0498
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
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Sharaqpur is a town of Sheikhupura District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 31°27'48N 74°5'60E^[1] and lies onthe Jaranwala road 32km from from Lahore. It is very beautiful and flourishing town with different flowers, greenery, meadows and gardens of different fruits. There is calm and peace in this society. Sharaqpur Sharif is known as the city of Saints.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Origins of name
4 Modern history
5 Popular Things
6 References

[edit] Geography

Sharaqpur is located at North-West of Lahore, across River Ravi. Just west of Sharaqpur, Nala Daik passes, and eventually meets River Ravi near Lahore.

[edit] History

Many years ago, the river Ravi flowed here and due to river this area was cultivated. The tribes of Gujranwala saw this place and settled here followed by the forefathers of the Aarain tribe from Sahiwal. The founder of Sharaqpur who build first home on this place was the grandfather of Hafiz Muhammad Jamal. In this period Hazrat Hafiz Muhammad Qadri and religious scholars was reached here from Hujra Shah Muqueem and built a mosque.

[edit] Origins of name

Hazrat Syed Abdul-Qadar Sani (Almaroof Kimia-ul-nazar) stayed here. Now it was like a village. With the passage of time, many people arrived here and they spread Islam, even the King of that time arrived here and developed this area. Different opinions are found about name of Sharaqpur. Miyan Mohammad Ashiq (late) writes in his book named “History of Sharaqpur” the name of Sharaqpur was kept by the numbers.

If we count the numbers of Sharaqpur then it will be 808 and this is the year of foundation of Sharaqpur. Other opinion is that Sultan Muhammad Shah Sarqi was used to meet famous personalities of Sharaqpur and give special attention on this area. Therefore people began to call this area Sharqipur after this Sharaqpur became the acronym of Sharqipur. Another opinion is that Malik Sharq the son of Malik Faheem had come to meet religious scholars of Sharaqpur and paid much attention to Sharaqpur. Therefore, after negotiation among people, they called this area Sharaqpur.

[edit] Modern history

In 1557, educational institutions were established here. There were forts of Non-Muslims and Sikh, they were jealous of the progress and prosperity of the Muslims. They want to destroy the central power of the Muslims. So there were battles between Muslims and Non-Muslims.

Muslims were winner. After this, Muslims thought that to save themselves from the attacks of the Non-Muslims, a wall should be build around Sharaqpur. So this wall was constructed and it had five gates. The names of these gates are Malkana gate, Gujrawala gate, Roshnai gate, Pari gate, Lahori gate. On every gate a watchman was appointed and these gates were closed at night. There was also a Shahi Mahal, now it has been destroyed with the passage of time. It was very beautiful palace.

Between 1904 and 1911, Sharaqpur was a Tehsil of Lahore District, from 1911 to 1921 Sharaqpur was a Tehsil of Gujranwala District and now it is Tehsil Sharaqpur of Sheikhupura District.

[edit] Popular Things

Sharaqpur is very popular due to pilgram of saint Mian shar-e-rubbani. Most popular soghat of Sharaqpur is a sweet named by Ghulab Jaman. The main ingredients of it are condensed milk, sugar and clarified butter. Another famous thing is the breakfast of mullan ki poorian in food street.Quite delicious and tasty.

Fruit

Guava, Water-melon, Alichee, Strawberry, Falsa

Crops

Rice, Wheat, Sugar Can, Maize

Vegetables

Potato's, Pea, Onions, Tomato's, Cabbage, Radish and many more.

Khusah's (Shoe)

A special kind of shoes which is called Khusah are manufactured here and very popular all over the Punjab province. These Khusahs are made by hand, no machines are used for that. Nowadays, these are specially designed for bridegroom on wedding ceremonies. Leather and silver or golden thread are used for their manufacturing. Silver and golden thread make is very graceful and attractive. Khusah is a part of Punjabi culture.

Fireworks

Sharaqpur is also popular for its fireworks industry.

Food Street

Now there is a beautiful and nice food street. Starts from Nalkay Wala Chowk till Malkana Gate. It opens around the clock (24/7). You can find out all kind of foods here.