Qalandar in Sufism is used as a title for some Sufi saints. Some people for whom the title is used are Lal Shahbaz Qalandar,

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Panipati, renowned as Bu Ali Qalandar (1209–1324 CE), born in Panipat, Haryana, India, was a Qalandar and Sufi saint of the Owaisī Order, who lived and taught in India. His shrine or dargah (mausoleum ...

Shams Ali Qalandar Sayeen Faqeer Muhammad Shams Ali Qalandar ( ur, حضرت سا یں فقیر محمّد شمس علی قلندر) was a great Sufi saint, Faqir and qalandar, he belonged to Silsilah Owaisi Qadiriyya Noshahi, from Punjab, Pakistan. He preached Isl ...

, Rabia Basri and

Qalander Baba Auliya Imam Hassan Ukhra Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya (1898 – 27 January 1979) (Urdu: امام حسن اخرٰی محمد عظیم برخیا), commonly referred to as Qalandar Baba Auliya (Urdu: قلندر بابا اولیاء), was the founding I ...

. Makhdom Mehmood Mastwar Qalander **Qalandar Qazalbash (Qalandarm Mastam) Muree* A Qalandar is a person who has excelled in seeing things and advances stage by stage into the Being. He even rises above the Administrative System and witnesses the core of Oneness in detail and after enjoying the Unity of the Being returns without losing his grades and then reaches back into his humanly status, so much so that his rise and fall becomes one and the same thing for him.. He witnesses part in the whole and sees the whole in the part and, then, after detaching himself from all this, plunges into a state of ecstasy. The status of a qalandar is even higher than the loved ones because duality remains there even in that state, i.e. one is the loved one and the other is the loving. In qalanderiyat there is no duality. ''Qalandar'' is a title given to a saint who is at a very high level of spirituality. They are different from other saints and have very strong feelings of love for God's creation. Qalandars, among the saints, are those persons who may enjoy freedom from the ties and bounds of time and space. It is claimed that all living things are given in their charge and command, every part of the universe may be at their disposal but these holy people are far above temptation, greed or lust. When people request them they feel duty-bound to listen and rectify the cause of miseries of people because they have been appointed by God for this very purpose. Qalandars have always spread the message of love and humanity, they are always in the state of ecstasy and their actions are with the will of God. They are ''Wali Allah''. Among contemporary people who hold the title of qalandar are

of Punjab, Pakistan,

Shahbaz Qalander Hazrat Sayyid Usman Marwandi, (1177 - 19 February 1274) popularly known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (), was a Sufi saint and poet of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was born in Marwand, Sistan to a family from Baghdad ...

, Nathar Vali,

Baba Fakruddin Syed Baba Fakhr al-Din Hassaini ul Hussaini (d. 1295 CE/ 694 AH) commonly known as Baba Fakhruddin was a Persian Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order from present-day Eastern Iran. Baba Fakhruddin was a disciple and successor of Pir Nathar Tabl e Aalam ...

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One Thousand and One Nights ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...

, Scheherezade recounts the tales of the three Calendars (alternate spelling).

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