His Serene Highness Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb
Born	1800 Kabul
Died	(1901-04-19)19 April 1901 Lahore
Resting place	Lahore
Predecessor	Hazrat Ishaan (Uwaisiyya line), [1] Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband
Successor	Sayyid Mahmud Agha
Parent	Sayyid Hasan ibn Azimullah

Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb ibn Hasan Naqshbandi ( Arabic: سيد مير جان شاه صاحب ابن حسن نقشبندى) was a Sunni saint from Kabul.

Ancestry

Sayyid Mir Jan was a Sayyid (a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib), both maternally and paternally. ^[2] His ancestors immigrated to Bokhara and after that to Kabul, where Sayyid Mir Jan was born. ^{[1] [3]} They also migrated to Bokhara, ^{[4] [5]} where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born. ^{[3] [6]} A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan, ^{[7] [8]} whose descendants later immigrated to variable regions of South Asia, like Khorasan, today known as Afghanistan in order to spread the Ishaqiyya Naqshbandiyya branch's teachings. ^{[3] [7] [8] [9]}

Biography

Early life and education

Sayyid Mir Jan was introduced in Tasawuf in the age of 5 years. His father Sayyid Mir Hasan was also a high ranking saint, who used to teach his sons about Islam and Sufism. Sayyid Mir Jan was educated in Kabul and became a professor of Islamic theology. Later he has built his own university in Lahore. Sayyid Mir Jan and his brother Sayyid Mahmud also wrote poems. ^{[3] [10]}

Spiritual journey

After his education in Kabul, Sayyid Mir Jan went on a spiritual journey and became the successor to many Sufi Saints who had trained him in Sufism. Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb became khalifa (master) of 7 Sufi tariqats, including tariqats of the Naqshbandi, Qadiriyya, Chishtiyya, Suhrawardiyya, Qalandariyya, Kubrawiyya, and Madariyya orders. He stayed in Medina for a decade to be trained by one of his masters, and while there married a local woman. Later, he traveled to Lahore to the tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Khawand Mahmud, also known as Hazrat Ishaan. Hazrat Ishaan was a Sufi saint from Bukhara, whose wilayat was also in Lahore. Hazrat Ishaan's successors included his two sons Moinuddin Naqshband in Srinagar, Kashmir and Bahauddin in Lahore and their descendants until the late 18th century, by which time the lineage was lost. ^[11] According to a legend, Hazrat Ishaan made prophecies about Sayyid Mir Jan, naming him as his successor to revive his lineage. ^{[10] [12]}

See also

• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Ali Hujwiri
• Sayyid Badiuddin Madar
• Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
• Bahauddin Naqshband
• Moinuddin Chishti
• Hazrat Ishaan
• Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband
• Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab
• Sayyid Mahmud Agha
• Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha

References