Sultan Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir Semnani ( ur, ; (1285–1386) was an

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Sufi saint from Semnan,

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. He was the founder of the Ashrafi Sufi order. He is India's third most influential Sufi Saint after Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. His father Sultan Ibrahim Noorbaksh was the local ruler of Semnan. Semnani was claimed to be the descendant of the Islamic prophet,

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

, through his grandson

Husayn ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

. His mother Bibi Khadija was said to be a descendant of the Turkic Sufi saint

Ahmad Yasawi Ahmad Yasawi ( kk, Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; fa, خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a pow ...

Lineage

Semnani was said to be a descendant of

through his daughter

Fatimah Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, th ...

from the lineage of her son,

Spiritual Lineage

Semnani spiritual lineage of

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# Fatima bint Muhammad and

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Hasan al-Basri Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra (Arabic: الحسن البصري, romanized: ''Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī''; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-Basri, was an early Muslim preacher, asceti ...

Abdul Waahid Bin Zaid 'Abd al-Wahid ibn Zaid (Urdu عبد الواحد بن زید) also known as Abdul Wahid bin Zayd, has been quoted in ''Fazail-e-Sadaqat'' as great early sufi shiekh. He is also reported to have received education from Imam Abu Hanifah, before ...

Fudhail Bin Iyadh Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ (died 803 / AH 187, , full name ', was also known as ''Abu Ali'' and as ''al-Talaqani'') was an Islamic Sunni Scholar. It is not uncommon to find his story confused with that of Fuḍayl Ibn Yahya, a contemporary who ...

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# Huzaifah Al-Mar'ashi

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Abu Hubayra al-Basri Abu Hubayra Amin ad deen al-Basri (Urdu ابو ہبیرہ امین الدین البصری ) was great Sufi of Chishti Order from Basra Iraq. He was disciple of Khwaja Sadid ad-Din Huzaifa al-Marashi and teacher of Khwaja Mumshad Uluw Al Dīnaw ...

Khwaja Mumshad Uluw Al Dīnawarī Khwāja Mumshād ʿUlū Ad-Dīnawarī ( fa, ), also known as Karīm ad-Dīn Munʿim ( ar, كريم الدين منعم), was a prominent Sufi of the 9th century. He was born in Dinavar, Iranian Kurdistan present day Iran province. He was discip ...

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Abu Ishaq Shamī Abu Ishaq Shami () (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order. He was the first in the Chishti lineage ('' silsila'') to live in Chisht and so to adopt the name "Chishti", so that, if the Chis ...

( Chishti Name start) #

Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti ( ar, ) was a Sufi of the Chishti Order in the 10th century CE and a disciple of Abu Ishaq Shami and the master of Abu Muḥammad Chishti. He died in 966 CE. He was Syed and his father was ruler of Fargana. He died in ...

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# Fariduddin Ganjshakar #

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# Akhi Siraj # Alaul Haq Pandavi #Ashraf Jahangir Semnani

Early life

After his father's death, Semnani then aged 17, became the ruler of Semnan. He was said to be inclined towards

mysticism Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning. It may also refer to the attainment of insight in u ...

. He enjoyed the company of Ruknuddin Ala ul Daula Semnani. At the age of 23, Semnani abdicated his throne in favor of his brother Sultan Sayyid Muhammad. Thereafter, Semnani migrated to

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

in order to meet Alaul Haq Pandavi.

Travels

After performing the obligatory pilgrimage to the

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Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red ...

and

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

, Semnani traveled to Gulbarga and Sarandib in

South India South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territo ...

Meeting with other Sufis

Semnani is said to have met with various known Sufis of his time that being Mir Sayyid Ali Hamdani,

Hafez Shirazi Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...

Bande Nawaz Muhammad bin Yusuf Al-Hussaini (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422), commonly known as Banda Nawaz Gaisu Daraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi saint from India of the Chishti Order. Gaisu Daraz was a disciple and then successor of Sufi ...

and

Sultan Walad Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad ( fa, بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad ( fa, سلطان ولد) was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet, Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the foun ...

the son of the Sufi poet, Rumi

Lineage

Spiritual Lineage

Early life

Travels

Meeting with other Sufis

See also

References

Further reading