• Source: Salim Chishti

Sheikh Salim Chishti (Urdu: شیخ سلیم چشتی, 1478–1572) also known as (Sheikh al- Hind), was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order during the Mughal Empire in India.




Biography



Sheikh Salim Chishti was a descendant of Sheikh Farid, a Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic.
The Mughal Emperor Akbar came to Chishti's home in Sikri to ask him to pray for a male heir to the throne. Chishti blessed Akbar, and soon the first of three sons was born to him. After a year Mariam-uz-Zamani the queen had a son. Akbar named his first son 'Salim' (later emperor Jahangir). In 1569, Akbar began construction of a religious compound to commemorate the Shaikh. After Jahangir's second birthday, he began the construction of a walled city and imperial palace at the same site. The city came to be known as Fatehpur Sikri, the "City of Victory", after Akbar's victorious Gujarat campaign in 1573.
A daughter of Sheikh Salim Chishti was the foster mother of Emperor Jahangir. The emperor was deeply attached to his foster mother, as reflected in the Jahangirnama and he was extremely close to her son Qutb-ud-din Khan Koka who was made the governor of Bengal and Orissa.
His eldest son, Saaduddin Khan, was ennobled Saaduddin Siddique and was granted three jagirs in the Gazipur District of Amenabad, Talebabad and Chandrapratap. Currently, his great grandson Kursheed Aleem Chishti lives there and is the 16th generation of Salim Chishti. These descendants in Bangladesh include Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, the co-founder of the Assam Bengal Muslim League and the University of Dhaka; Justice Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky; Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky, the Commerce Minister of Bangladesh;and Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, an anti-corruption activist and candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka in 2015. The descendant of his second-eldest son, Shaikh Ibrahim, was granted the title Kishwar Khan and now reside in Sheikhupur, Badaun in India.




Salim Chishti Tomb






See also


Islam Khan I (grandson)
Islam Khan V
Mukarram Khan, great-grandson
Sheikhupur, Badaun
Qutubuddin Koka




References






External links


Media related to Salim Chishti Tomb at Wikimedia Commons

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• Buland Darwaza
• Dorgah
• Pola geometri Islam
• Mariam-uz-Zamani
• Sunni
• Akbar yang Agung
• Muhammad Hayat as-Sindi
• Tarekat Rahmaniyah
• Salim Chishti
• Tomb of Salim Chishti
• Jahangir
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Chishti Order
• Jama Mosque, Fatehpur Sikri
• Ajmer rape case
• Mu'in al-Din Chishti
• Akbar Salim Anarkali
• Buland Darwaza