Roshani movement

The Rōshānī movement (Pashto: روښاني غورځنګ‎, "the enlightened movement") was a populist, nonsectarian Sufi reformation movement founded in 16th-century by the Afghan or Pashtun warrior-poet, Bayazid Pir Roshan, who is more commonly known as Pir Roshan or Pir Rokhan ("the enlightened Pir (sufi master)").^[1] Pir Roshan challenged the inequality and social injustice he imputed to the Moghul rulers of the day, instead advocating an egalitarian and even communistic social system.^[2] Its adherents were inducted into the order through a series of secret initiation rituals.

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