Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Religion	Islam
Other names	Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Personal
Born	1177 Marwand, Iran
Died	19 February 1275 (aged 98) Sehwan, Jamshoro District, Sindh (modern day Pakistan)
Senior posting
Based in	Sehwan, Najaf
Title	Shahbaz
Period in office	12th/13th century
Predecessor	Baha-ud-din Zakariya
Successor	Syed Muhammad Raza Shah Subzwari

Syed Muhammad Usman Marwandi (1177–19 February 1275), also known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (Sindhi: لال شھباز قلندر‎), was a Sufi philosopher-poet of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Called Lal (Red) after his usual red attire, Shahbaz to denote a noble and divine spirit.

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, son of Pir Syed Hasan Kabeeruddin, was born in Marwand. His ancestors had migrated from Baghdad and settled in Mashhad, before moving again to Marwand.

He lived when the Ghaznavid and Ghurids ruled in South Asia. A contemporary of Rumi, he travelled around the Muslim world and settled in Sehwan where he was eventually buried. There is evidence of his presence in Sindh in 1196 when he met Pir Haji Ismail Panhwar of Paat and he is believed to have arrived in Sehwan around 1251. There he established a meeting house (khanqah), taught in the Fuqhai Islam Madarrsah and wrote his treatises Mizan-us-Surf, Kism-e-Doyum, Aqd and Zubdah. Lal Shahbaz lived a celibate life and died in the year 1300 at the age of 151.

In Multan he metBaha-ud-din Zakariya of the Suhrwardiyya, Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar of the Chishtiyya and Syed Jalaluddin Bukhari. The friendship of these four became legendary, they were known as the Chahar Yar (In Persian "the four friends"). According to some historians the four visited various parts of Sindh, Punjab (in present-day Pakistan) and southern part of India..

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