Panj peer
Panj Peer (or Panj Pir), meaning the Five Great Saints in Persian, used to be accompanied together in their lifetime as follows:
- Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (1142 – 1236) also known as 'Gharib Nawaz' (Ajmer, Rajasthan, India)[1][2]
- Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 3 April 1325), Delhi
- Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173 – 1235), of Mehrauli, Delhi[1][2]
- Sheikh Baba Farid Ganjshakar (1179 – 1266) (Pakpattan, Punjab)[2]
- Baha'ud din Zakariya (1182 – 1268) (Multan, Punjab)[2]
- Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177 – 1274) (Sehwan, Sindh)[3]
Depiction of Heer and Ranjha sitting before the panj pir, from the title page of Qissa Hir Jog Singh, lithograph, Lahore, 1882
Above Sufi saints are mentioned in the great love-epic of the Sufi poet Sayyid Waris Shah "Heer Ranjha", which opens with an invocation to these holy sages.
See also
References
- Sudarshana Srinivasan (22 August 2015). "An afternoon with the saints". The Hindu (newspaper). Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- "Sufis and the Spread of Islam". Story of Pakistan website. 28 April 2012. Archived from the original on 6 August 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- Masood Lohar (5 October 2004). "Saint revered by people of all religions". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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