Sayyid Mahmud Agha

Sayyid Mahmud Agha
Born unknown
Kabul
Died October 1882
Lahore
Resting place Lahore
Predecessor Sayyid Mir Jan
Parent(s) Sayyid Mir Hasan

Sayyid Mahmud Agha (died 1882) was a Sufi saint from Afghanistan. He was the brother of Sayyid Mir Jan.

Ancestry

Sayyid Mahmud Agha was a Sayyid (a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib), both maternally and paternally. Among his paternal ancestors were seven of the Twelve Imams, and among his maternal ancestors were eleven of the Twelve Imams and Sayyid Bahauddin Naqshband, Sayyid Alauddin Atar, and Khwaja Khawand Mahmud (also known as Hazrat Eshan) also. After the Battle of Karbala, the Ahl al-Bayt went back to Medina.[1] From there Musa al Kazim was forced to go to Iraq.[2] The Musavis, i.e. the descendants of Musa al Kadhim, settled to Persia.[3] One of them called Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ismail Muhammad Hakim, is known as the patriarch of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, through his son Sayyid Mir Jafar.[4] Another son of Khwaja Sayyid Mir ismail Muhammad Hakim was Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latif, The ancestor of Hazrat Sayyid Mahmud Agha. The descendants of Sayyid Mir Latif immigrated to Bokhara and after that to Kabul, where Sayyid Mahmud Agha was born.[5][6] Sayyid Mahmud Aghas maternal ancestors were Askari Sayyids, i.e. descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari. His son was Sayyid Ali Akbar, brother of Imam Mahdi. His existence was hidden, because of political conflicts.[7][8] Sayyid Ali Akbars descendants also migrated to Bokhara, where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born.[9][10] A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan,[11][12] whose descendants later immigrated to variable regions of South Asia, like Khorasan, today known as Afghanistan in order to spread the Ishaqiyya Naqshbandiyya branch´s teachings.[13][14][15][16]

Lineage

  • 1 Muhammad
  • 2 Ali and Fatima Al Zahra
  • 3 Imam Hussain Shaheede Reza
  • 4 Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin
  • 5 Imam Muhammad al Baqir
  • 6 Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq
  • 7 Imam Musa al Kazim
  • 8 Abu Qasim Sayyid Mir Hamza
  • 9 Sayyid Mir Qasim
  • 10 Sayyid Mir Ahmad
  • 11 Sayyid Mir Muhammad
  • 12 Sayyid Mir Ismail Muhammad Hakim
  • 13 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latif
  • 14 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Muhammad
  • 15 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Kulal
  • 16 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ahmad
  • 17 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Hashim
  • 18 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Mustaali
  • 19 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Dost Ali
  • 20 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Muhammad Latif
  • 21 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Abdullah
  • 22 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Muhammad Shamah
  • 23 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latifullah
  • 24 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ruhollah
  • 25 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Baitullah
  • 26 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Nimatullah
  • 27 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Azimullah
  • 28 Khwaja Sayyid Mir Muhammad Hasan
  • 29 Sayyid ul Sadat Khwaja Mir Sayyid Mahmud Agha

Legacy

Sayyid Mahmud Agha Shah Saheb died in Lahore and is buried on behalf of his older brother on the left of Sayyid Mir Jan future grave, next to Hazrat Ishaan. In his mausoleum in Begampura, Lahore, his Urs, or death anniversary, is celebrated with short prayers called Zikr. It is known in Sufi metaphysics as the day when a Wali died in deep love.[17]

He is known in Sufism for his unlimited love and loyalty to his older brother Sayyid Mir Jan, as a Sufi poet and as a Dervish, who has disconnected himself from the desire of materialism completely. It is also said that while he was very authoritarian and serious, he was also a kind and warm-hearted person.

Darbare Hazrat Eshan at night after renovation of Khwaja Sardar Mir Sayyid Sultan Masood Dakik
Inside of the Darbar. Grave of Hazrat Eshan Shah Saheb, Hazrat Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb Sayyid Mahmud Shah Saheb after renovation by Khwaja Sardar Sayyid Mir Sultan Masood Dakik

See also

References

  1. ↑ Imam Ali ibn al-Hussein (2001). The Complite Edition of the Treatise on Rights. Qum: Ansariyan Publications.
  2. ↑ Sharif al-Qarashi2, Baqir (2000). The Life Of Imam Musa Bin Ja'far aL-Kazim (PDF). Translated by Jasim al-Rasheed. Iraq: Ansarian
  3. ↑ The Safavid dynastic shrine: Architecture, religion and power in early modern Iran; Kishwar Rizvi; p.219
  4. ↑ The Safavid dynastic shrine: Architecture, religion and power in early modern Iran; Kishwar Rizvi; p.219
  5. ↑ Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore) p.65
  6. ↑ Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahorin
  7. ↑ al-Kafi, by Muhammad Ya'qub Kulayni. Translated by Muhammad Sarwar. Chap. 124, Birth of Abi Muhammad al-Hasan ibn 'Ali, p.705
  8. ↑ Dr.Annemarie Schimmels book "Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-Century Muslim India" BRILL, 1976, p.32
  9. ↑ Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahorin
  10. ↑ Sultanova, Razia (2011). "Naqshbandiyya". From Shamanism to Sufism. I.B.Tauris. p. 32-37. ISBN 978-1-84885-309-6.
  11. ↑ http://www.nazariapak.info/Sufism/Hazarat-Ehsan.php
  12. ↑ Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F.Richards p. 159
  13. ↑ Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahorin
  14. ↑ http://www.nazariapak.info/Sufism/Hazarat-Ehsan.php
  15. ↑ Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F.Richards p. 159
  16. ↑ the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition" written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann ;company: Routledge Taylor&Francis Group(p.52)
  17. ↑ Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)p.332-337
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