Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh (also known as Hazrat Shaikh Alamsayakh Makhdoom Sama'al-Din Kamboh) was born in 1405 AD in

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. Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh was a Sufi of the Suhrawardi order and came to

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during the reign of Sultan Bahlol Lodi (d 894/1488) and became the patron saint of the

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. His father Maulana Shaikh Fakhrudin was a venerable religious leader of that era.

Makhdoom Makhdoom ( ar, مخدوم, meaning ''one who is served'' and sometimes spelled Makhdum, bn, মখদুম, Mokhdum) is an Arabic word meaning "Teacher of Sunnah." It is a title for Pirs, in South and Central Asia. People with the title Makh ...

Shaikh Sama'al-Din had been the royal spiritual adviser or Pir, first to emperor Sultan Bahlol Lodi, and later to Sultan Sikandar Lodi. He commanded greatest respect amongst the entire Muslim spiritual and religious leaders and ''was one of the greatest

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Shaikhs of his times''. The ''

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'' of Hazrat Shaikh Sama'al-Din is located in Delhi where the Zubairies of Panipat used to assemble every year for offering Fateha in pre-independence days. Spiritual discipline apart, Shaikh Sama'al-Din was a scholar of traditional sciences and imparted instructions as a professional teacher to a large number of students. One of his famous students who rose to eminence was Shaikh Jamali Kamboh. Shaikh Sama'al-Din was author of (1) a glossary on ''Iraqi's Lam'at'' and (2) a tract on Sufism, ''Miftah ul-Asrar''.Dictionary of Indo-Persian Literature, 1995, p 541, Nabi Hadi.

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15th-century deaths Year of birth unknown People from Multan {{Islam-bio-stub