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nominated one of his disciples, Lehna as his The Ulema did not accept the Sufi saints kindly
successor who came to be known as Guru Angad. because they did not believe in any rituals. The
Guru Nanak travelled widely and spread his Sufi saints were venerated as pirs or gurus. It is
message to the fellow beings. believed that they possessed many supernatural
powers and could predict future. Like orthodox
There is a tradition of a total of ten Sikh gurus— Muslims, they did not want the people to convert
Guru Nanak, Guru Angad Dev, Guru Amar Das, Guru to Islam, they only wanted the people to love God
Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Hargobind, Guru Har and have devotion. They taught in the common
Rai, Guru Harkrishan, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru language in both prose and poetry. Their
Gobind Singh.
assemblies were famous for the quawwalis, and
Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa or Sikh they are sung even today.
community. After him, the Guru Granth Sahib is The Sufi saints formed many silsilahs or orders.
revered as the Sikh Guru and its copy is kept in all Two of the important silsilahs were the Chishti
Gurudwaras.
Silsilah and the Suhrawardi Silsilah .
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The Guru Granth Sahib is written in Gurumukhi
script. In the different Sufi Silsilah, the Chishti Silsilah
was the most influential. Great teachers like
A Legend of Guru Nanak Khawaja Muin-ud-din Chisthi of Ajmer and Hazrat
There are many legends famous about Guru Nanak. Nizam-ud-din Auliya of Delhi belong to this
Once Guru Nanak was sleeping outside a shrine Silsilah. Every year, thousands of devotees visit the
with his feet towards the shrine. At this, the priest dargahs of these two Sufi saints.
came and asked him to move away his feet. Guru Chishti Silsilah
Nanak asked him to move his legs to the direction
where God was not present. The priest adamantly The three important Sufi saints of the Chishti
moved Guru Nanak’s feet to the other direction, but Silsilah were Muin-ud-din Chishti , Baba Farid and
to his astonishment, the shrine too moved in that Nizam-ud-din Auliya . These three saints have their
direction; and he moved his feet again only to find dargahs (tombs) at Ajmer (in Rajasthan), Hansi (in
the shrine in that very direction. Haryana) and Delhi respectively. They composed
beautiful heart touching verses and sang them in
SUFI MOVEMENT the company of their followers. Even today, their
dargahs attract a large number of people from
The Sufi saints came to India from Persia during the
different parts of our country.
Delhi Sultanate period. They settled at different
places in India and won many followers from both
Hindus and Muslims. Their idea was similar to the
Bhakti saints. They also professed love for God and
fellow human beings. They were of the opinion
that devotion to God was more important than any
other ritual or practice. They treated all people as
equal. Due to their similar thinking, the Sufi and Dargah of Muin-ud-din Nizam-ud-din Auliya
Bhakti saints borrowed each other’s ideas. Chishti at Ajmer at Delhi
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West and Central Asia and decided to settle down Sufi saints. It is believed that they could cure
in the Indian subcontinent. illness and predict the future.
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