The Sadaat Amroha () or Amrohi Sayyid or Sayyid of Amroha () are a community of
Sayyid
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s, historically settled in the town of
Amroha, in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh
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. Many members of the community migrated to Pakistan after independence and settled in
Karachi
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,
Sindh
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, Bewal - Rawalpindi - through Syed Dewan Shah Abdul Baqi Guzri Bewali bin Syed Abdul Wahid Guzri (Amroha) some descendants of whom settled in
Azad Kashmir
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, from which some now also reside in the
United Kingdom
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.
History
The town of
Amroha is home to one of the oldest Naqvi Sadat settlements in India. Naqvis in Amroha arrived from
Wasit,
Iraq
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and have resided in the town of
Amroha since A.D. 1190.
The Amrohi Sayyids formed the military and service gentry of the region in the Mughal empire. When the Marathas invaded and plundered the region, the country of Western
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
was burnt with the exception of Amroha owing to a few thousand Amrohi Sayyid soldiers that drove out and conciliated with the Marathas.
Syed Hussain Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat Naqvi
Syed Hussain Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat Naqvi (R.A) () was a prominent 13th-century sufi saint.
Local legend says that the animals who live in his ''
mazar'' (shrine), especially
scorpion
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s, never harm humans.
Present circumstances
The Sadaat Amroha are divided among those that remained in India and those that emigrated to Pakistan. The Anjuman Sadaat Amroha is the community's main organization.
See also
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Saadat-e-Bara
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Sadaat-e-Bilgram
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Syed Nagli
References
External links
Sadat-e-Amroah Pakistan{{authority control
Hashemite people
Muslim communities of Uttar Pradesh
Urdu-speaking people
Muhajir communities
Sufism in India
People from Amroha