Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi

Syed Nasiruddin Mahmud AlHassani
Religion	Islam, specifically the Chisti Nizami order of Sufism
Other names	Chiragh Dehlavi
Personal
Born	1274 Ayodhya, India
Died	1356 (aged 82) Delhi, India
Senior posting
Based in	Delhi
Title	چراغِ دہلی Chiragh-e-Dehli
Period in office	Early 14th century
Predecessor	Nizamuddin Auliya
Successor	Hazrat Khawaja Kamaluddin Allama Chishti, Banda Nawaz Gesu Daraz

Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi (ca 1274-1356) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a murid (disciple) of noted Sufi saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, and later his successor. He was the last important Sufi of the Chishti Order from Delhi.

Dehlavi was given the title, "Roshan Chirag-e-Delhi", which in Urdu, means "Illuminated Lamp of Delhi".

Nasiruddin Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi (or Chiragh-e-Delhi) was born as Syed Nasiruddin Mahmud AlHassani around 1274, at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Dehlavi's father, Syed Mahmud Yahya AlHassani, who traded in Pashmina, and his grandfather, Syed Yahya Abdul Latif AlHassani, first migrated from Khorasan, northeastern Iran, to Lahore, and thereafter settled in Ayodhya, in Awadh. His father died when he was only nine years of age and he received his early education from Maulana Abdul Karim Sherwani, and later continued it with Maulana Iftikhar Uddin Gilani.

At age forty, he left Ayodhya for Delhi, where he became the disciple of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya. It was here that Dehlavi stayed for the rest of his life as his murid (disciple), and after his death, became his successor. In time, he also became a known poet in Persian language.

He died in 17 Ramzan 757 Hijri or 1356 AD, at the age of 82, and is buried in a part of South Delhi, India which is known as "Chirag Delhi" after him.

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