Baha-ud-din Zakariya

Baha-ud-din Zakariya
Religion	Islam, specifically the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order
Personal
Born	around 1170 Kot Kehror (Karor Lal Eason), Layah.
Died	1267 Multan
Senior posting
Based in	Multan
Title	Hadrat, Sheikh (Ghous-ul-Aalamin)
Period in office	12th/13th century
Predecessor	Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
Successor	Various, including lal Shahbaz Qalander, Fakhr ud din Iraqi, Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi

Baha-ud-din Zakariya (Persian: بہاؤ الدین زکریا) was a Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order (tariqa). His full name was Al-Sheikh Al-Kabir Sheikh-ul-Islam Baha-ud-Din Abu Muhammad Zakaria Al-Qureshi Al-Asadi Al Hashmi. Sheikh Baha-ud-Din Zakariya known as Bahawal Haq was born at Kot Kehror (Karor Lal Eason), a town of the Layyah District near Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, around 1170. His grandfather Shah Kamaluddin Ali Shah Qureshi Al-Hashmi arrived in Multan from Mecca en route to Khwarezm where he stayed for a short while. In Tariqat he was the disciple of renowned Sufi master Shaikh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi who awarded him Khilafat only after 17 days of stay at his Khanqah in Baghdad. For fifteen years he went from place to place to preach Islam and after his wanderings Bahawal Haq settled in Multan in 1222.

Contents 1 His Shrine 2 Descendents 3 Genealogy 4 Memorandum 5 Sufi order 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

His Shrine

Baha-ud-din Zakariya died in 1267 and his mausoleum, Darbar Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya, is located at Multan. The mausoleum is a square of 51 ft 9 in (15.77 m), measured internally. Above this is an octagon, about half the height of the square, which is surmounted by a hemispherical dome. The mausoleum was almost completely ruined during the siege of 1848 by the British, but was soon afterward restored by the Muslims.^[1]

Descendents

Baha-ud-din Zakariya had seven sons who gained fame in their own right as great Sufis - Shaykh Sadruddin Arif, Shaykh Burhanuddin, Shaykh Ziauddin, Shaykh Alauddin, Shaykh Qudrat-ud-din, Shaykh Shahab-ud-din, and Shaykh Shams-ud-din. Shaykh Sadruddin Arif's son was the famous Sufi Shaykh Abul Fath Ruknuddin, also known as Shah Rukn-e-Alam. His progeny dispersed all over India during the coming centuries and produced many famous people in all walks of life and scholarship. His descendants are found in Multan,Gujrat, Chakwal, jhelum, Bhera, Attock (Pourmiana), Lahore, pail district Khushab, Delhi, Meerut, Allahabad and .

Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi is the current Sajjada Nashin of Darbar Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya^[2]

Genealogy

Baha ud din belongs from genealogy of Al-Qureashi Al-Hashmi Al-Asadi, and is also related to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

• Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya, son of
• Muhammad Ghous (Al.maroof) Waji-ud-din, son of
• Kamal-ud-din Ali Shah, (his LAQAB was "Abu Bakar"), son of
• Sultan Ali Qudsi,(known as Sultan Jalal-ud-din), son of
• Sultan Muhammad Shah, son of
• Sultan Hussain Shah, son of
• Sultan Abdullah Shah, (known as "Shamas-ud-din"), son of
• Sultan Hassan Shah,son of
• Sultan Matarfah Shah, son of
• Sultan Hazeem Shah, son of
• Sultan Khadim Shah, son of
• Ameer Muhammad Taj-ud-din Shah,son of
• Ameer Abdul Raheem, son of
• Ameer Abdul Rahman, son of
• Ameer Ayaaz, son of
• Asad ibn Hashim, son of
• Hashim ibn Abd Manaf,(he is also the father of Abdul Mutlib who is the grandfather of Muhammad)

Memorandum

• A train is named after him, which runs between Karachi and Multan.
• Largest university of South Punjab is also called Bahauddin Zakariya University.

Sufi order

He belongs to the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order, which is very prominent in the Mamluk Sultanate of India. He was one of the most distinguished disciples of Sheikh ul-Sheiyukh Shahabuddin Suhrawarthy. After wandering for fifteen years he eventually came to Multan in 1222 and settled there. Multan had come to be known as "Baghdad of the East" and also earned another distinction immortalised in the following couplet of Bahaul Haq in Persian :

                         Multan ma ba jannat a'la barabar ast
                         Ahista pa ba-nah ke malik sajda mi kunad.

                     (Multan of ours is comparable to the great Paradise,
                      Tread slowly, the angels are paying obeisance here.)

See also

• Qari Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui

References

External links

• Mausoleum of Bahauddin Zakariya
• Bahauddin Zakariya University

Sufism and Tariqah Ideas Baqaa Fanaa Haal Haqiqa Ihsan Kashf Lataif Manzil Marifa Muqaam Nafs Noor Sulook Sufi cosmology Sufi metaphysics Sufi philosophy Sufi psychology Yaqeen Practices Dhikr Haḍra Muraqaba Qawwali Sama Whirling Anasheed Sufi orders Akbarī Alians Ba 'Alawī Bayramī Bektashī Chishtī Galibī Gulshanī Ḥurūfī Idrīsī Jelvetī Jerrahī Khalwatī Kubrāwī Madarī Malāmatī Mawlāwī Mourīdī Naqshbandī Nasuhī Ni'matullāhī Nuqtawī Qadirī Qalāndārī Rifa'ī Safāvī Shadhilī Suhrawardī Sunbulī Tijanī Ussakī Uwaisī Zahedī Notable Early Sufi Saints and Mystics Abdul-Qadir Gilanī Abul-Khayr Ahmad Ghazālī Ahmed Yasāvī Al-Ghazālī Al-Hallaj al-Qunawī Amīr Kulal Ardabilī Ata Allah Attar Balım Sultan Bande Nawāz Baqī Billah Bastamī Bhita'ī Bulleh Shah Dehlāvī Farīd ūd-Dīn Gālib Gharīb Nawāz Ghujdawanī Ghulam Farīd Gül Baba Hajji Bayram Hajji Bektash Haddad Hamadānī Hansvī Harabatī Baba Hasan Basri Haydar Hudayī Hujwirī ibn ʿArabī Jamī Jānān Jazoulī Junayd Baġdādī Kākī Kaliyarī Karkhī Kharaqanī Kūbra Misrī Nāimī Najib al-Suhrawardī Naqshband Nasīmī Nurī Ni'matullāh Nizām ūd-Dīn Otman Baba Pir Sultan Rabbānī Rabia Basri Rifa'ī Rukn-e-Alam Rūmī Saadī Sanai Sarı Saltuk Semnanī Shadhilī Shahāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī Shams Tabrizī Shiblī Shirazī Sultan Walad Taj al-Dīn Gilanī Umar al-Suhrawardī Uwais al-Qarni Yunus Emre Zakariya Zarruq Notable Modern Sufi Saints Auliya Nagpuri Meher Ali Qadeer Piya Muhammad Maliki Gohar Shahi Tahir ul-Qadri Tahir Allauddin Taqi Usmani Abdal Hakim Murad Nazim Al-Haqqani Hisham Kabbani Nuh Keller Nooruddeen Durkee Abdalqadir as-Sufi Azeemi Zaheen Ghulam Mustafa Reshad Feild Ahmad al-Alawi Ashraf Ali Thanvi Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri Omar Shah Haeri Raza Khan Syed Shujaat Pir Zulfiqar Abdullah Naqshbandi Sufi Barkat Ali Hafiz Qamaruddin Saheb Qibla Fultali Feisal Abdul Rauf Sufi studies Aguéli Almqvist Burckhardt Chittick Corbin Ernst Frager Guénon Hixon Lindbom Lings Nasr Schimmel Sells Shah Schuon Topics in Sufism Art Fiction History Music Poetry Shrines Texts

Persondata
Name	Zakariya, Baha-Ud-Din
Alternative names
Short description	Pakistani Sufi
Date of birth
Place of birth	Kot Kehror, Layah.
Date of death	1267
Place of death	Multan