{"id":19820,"date":"2024-01-28T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19820"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:37:37","slug":"hazrat-nizamuddin-aulia-dargah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hazrat-nizamuddin-aulia-dargah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located <strong>in Delhi&#8217;s<\/strong> Nizamuddin West area.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>mausoleum of<\/strong> the famous <strong>Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya<\/strong> (1238-1325 CE).<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>built in the 14th Century C.E<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o It consists of a <strong>square chamber surrounded by verandahs<\/strong>, which are pierced by arched openings, while its <strong>roof is surmounted by a dome<\/strong> pringing from an octagonal drum.<\/p>\n<p>o The <strong>dome is ornamented by vertical stripes of black marble<\/strong> and is crowned by a lotus-cresting.<\/p>\n<p>o Inside the dargah complex, one can find the <strong>tombs of Nizamuddin Auliya&#8217;s saints<\/strong>: <strong>Jahanara Begum, Shah Jahan\u2019s favorite daughter<\/strong>, and <strong>poet Amir Khusru<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>o Towards the north side of Dargah, there is a <strong>stepwell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>o On the north-eastern side, there is a <strong>16th-century tomb of Atgah Khan<\/strong>, who was a powerful minister in Emperor Akbar\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>o The site is also known for its <strong>evening qawwali devotional music sessions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who was Nizamuddin Auliya?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya was one of the most famous <strong>Sufi saints<\/strong> from the Indian subcontinent region.<\/li>\n<li>Also known as <strong>Hazrat Nizamuddin<\/strong> and Mahbub-e-Ilahi (Beloved of God), he was a <strong>Sunni Muslim scholar<\/strong> and <strong>Sufi saint of the Chishti Order.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Like most of the Chishti Sufi saints, Nizamuddin Auliya s<strong>tressed love as a means of realising God.<\/strong> He believed the love of God implied a love of humanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7 Some of the <strong>famous disciples<\/strong> of Nizamuddin include <strong>Shaikh Nasiruddin Chirag Delhavi, Amir Khusro<\/strong>, and the royal poet of the Delhi Sultanate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Sufism?<\/h3>\n<p>Sufism represents the inward-looking, mystical dimension of Islam. Often thought erroneously to be its own sect or denomination \u2013 such as Sunni Islam \u2013 Sufism is better understood as an approach that mixes mainstream religious observances, such as prescribed daily prayers, with a range of supplementary spiritual practices, such as the ritual chanting of God\u2019s attributes (zhikr) or the veneration of saints.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/french-president-emmanuel-macron-sufi-music-hazrat-nizamuddin-dargah-delhi-watch-video-republic-day-2024-chief-guest-11706336510088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">French President Emmanuel Macron relishing Sufi music at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi | Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah is the mausoleum of the famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya (1238-1325 CE). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}