Sayyid Mahmud Agha

Hazrat Sayyid Mahmud Agha ia 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 are 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 Ishaan) 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. One of them was Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ismail Muhammad Hakim, father of Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latif, an 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.[3][4] Sayyid Mahmud Aghas maternal ancestors were Askari Sayyids, i.e. descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari, through his son Sayyid Ali Akbar, whose existence was hidden, because of political conflicts.[5][6] Sayyid Ali Akbars descendants also migrated to Bokhara, where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born.[7][8] A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan,[9][10] 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.[11][12][13][14]

• 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 Hazrat Shah Saheb Khwaja Mir Sayyid Mahmud Saheb Agha
• 30 Sayyid Mir Muhammad Jan
• 31 Sayyida Bibi Rahima
• 32 Mir Sayyid Sultan Massood Dakik

Sayyid Mahmud Agha Shah Saheb died in Lahore and is buried on the left of the future grave of Sayyid Mir Jan. In his mausoleum in Begampura, Lahore, his Urs, or death anniversary, is commemorated with short prayers called Zikr. It is known in Sufi metaphysics as the day, in which a Wali died in deep love.[15]

He is known for his unlimited love and loyalty to his older brother and master Sayyid Mir Jan. It is said that while he was very charismatic, honorable, authoritarian and serious, he was also a very warm-hearted, kind and just man, resembling prophet Muhammad.

• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
• Ali Hujwiri
• Bahauddin Naqshband
• Moinuddin Chishti
• Hazrat Ishaan
• Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab
• Sayyid Mir Jan