Ancestry

Syed Shah Jamal was descendant of Makhdoom Syed Sadruddin Rajan Qattaal, who was a son of Makhdoom Syed Sultan Ahmad Kabir Bin Makhdoom Syed

Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari Jalaluddin "Surkh-Posh" Bukhari ( fa, , c. 595-690 AH, 1190 – 1295 CE) was a Sufi saint and missionary belonging to the Sufi order of Hussaini Jalali. Names Bukhari, a family name, is derived from the location of his birth city of B ...

. Syed Shah Jamal belonged to the school of

Suhrawardiyya The Suhrawardiyya ( ar, سهروردية, fa, سهروردیه) is a Sufi order founded by Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi (died 1168). Lacking a centralised structure, it eventually divided into various branches. The order was especially prominent in ...

. Baba Syed Shah Jamal's descendants mostly live in Kotli Shah Saleem,

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. His grandson Syed Shah Saleem Bin Baba Syed Shah Moosa Bin Shah Jamal's Tomb is situated in Kotli Shah Saleem village.

Life

He lived in

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest ...

's neighbourhood of Ichhra at the time of Mughal emperor

Akbar the Great Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...

. The emperor, along with the council of his advisers, introduced the

Din-i-Ilahi The Dīn-i-Ilāhī ( fa, , ), known during its time as Tawḥīd-i-Ilāhī ("Divine Monotheism", ) or Divine Faith, was a new syncretic religion or spiritual leadership program propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582, intending to merge ...

("Divine Faith") a

syncretic Syncretism () is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thu ...

religion intended to merge the best elements of the religions of his empire (primarily

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and Islam; elements were also taken from

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesu ...

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, and

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) and thereby reconcile the sectarian differences that divided his subjects. Syed Shah Jamal fought against Akbar’s

and brought the people back to orthodox Islam.

Shrine

Jamal died in 1671. His shrine is located near Muslim Town in

Shah Jamal Syed Shah Jamal Uddin Naqvi Bukhari (Urdu:; 1588–1671) also known as Baba Shah Jamal was a Sufi saint. He is also known as Hussaini Syed. Ancestry Syed Shah Jamal was descendant of Makhdoom Syed Sadruddin Rajan Qattaal, who was a son of Makh ...

, opposite to Forman Christian (FC) College. Festivities take place there every Thursday. His Urs is conducted annually on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of

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, and is attended by hundreds of thousands of devotees. A characteristic part of the rituals was the late

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, who used to play the

dhol Dhol (IPA: ) can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent. Its range of distribution in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan primarily includes nor ...

at the shrine.

Khalifa Akbar & Sajjada Nasheen

His

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Akbar and Sajjada Nasheen

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Dr Syed Ali Hussain Shah Naqvi al Bukhari Hussaini. who is a descendant and the Trustee and successor of Baba Shah Jamal through the

Silsila tul Zahab Silsila ( ar, سِلْسِلَة) is an Arabic word meaning ''chain'', ''link'', ''connection'' often used in various senses of lineage. In particular, it may be translated as "spiritual genealogy" where one Sufi Master transfers his ''khil ...

( Silsila-e-Zahab) or Golden Chain. He holds regular

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and issues

Fatwas A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...

References

External links

''Pappu Saeen beats the drum for Shah Jamal''
Daily Times (3 May 2006)
''Devotees whirl to dhol at Baba Jamal’s Urs''
Khaleej Times (5 May 2006)
''Gonga Saeen & Mithu Saeen beats the drum for Baba Shah Jamal, Photo by Yasuo Osakabe''
Photographer, Yasuo Oaskabe {{authority control Qadiri order Kashmiri Sufi saints Kashmiri people 1588 births 1671 deaths Shrines in Pakistan Punjabi Sufis People from Lahore