Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali

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Nund Rishi or Nund Reshi ( Urdu نُندہ ریشی) (* 1377 ; † 1438 ), also known as Sheikh Noor ud-Din Wali , Sheikh Noor ud-Din Noorani ( Urdu شیخ نُورالدین نُورانی) and as Sheikh ul-Alam ( Urdu شیخُ العالم) among Muslims and as Sahajanand among the Hindus - was a Kashmiri mystic who is considered the patron saint of Kashmir. He is considered the founder of the Rishi order who influenced other mystics such as Hamza Makhdoom , Resh Mir Sàeb and Shamas Faqir .

Life

Nund Rishi was born in the village of Qaimoh / Kaimoh (formerly Katimusha) in the district of Kulgam , 10 km from Anantnag and 60 km southeast of Srinagar in the year 649 of the Kashmiri calendar / 1377 AD, corresponding to the year 779 of the Islamic calendar . His father was Sheikh Sala-ud-din and his mother Sadra was called Sadra Moji or Sadra Deddi. In Kashmir, Moji means mother and Deddi denotes an older age.

Nur-ud-din was apprenticed to various traders one by one. He was horrified by the world and at the age of 30 he decided to renounce the world and retire to a cave for meditation. It is said that he lived in the wild for 12 years. The cave in which he lived can be seen in Qaimuh and is about 3.5 m deep. At the end of his life he is said to have lived on a cup of milk a day. Eventually he drank only water and died at the age of 63 in 1438 according to the Shams-ul-Arifin chronogram . The Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin is said to have been present at his funeral.

The funeral was chaired by the religiously highly respected Makhdum Baba Usman Uchchap Ganai. The tomb of Sheikh Nur-ud-din in Charari Sharief, a small town 35 km southwest of Srinagar, is still visited by many pilgrims today.

Sheikh Nur-ud-din- is said to have married Zai Ded from Dadasara , Tral , Pulwama and to have had two sons and a daughter. When her children died, Zai Ded is said to have renounced the world and become a hermit . She was buried in Qaimuh.

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He used his poetry as a means of spreading knowledge of the absolute . His poetry is commonly known as Shrukhs .

Tawhid , Risala, Ma'ad, Lust are the main subjects of his poetry. He strongly criticizes false scholars of Islam.

One of his well-known poems reads in Kashmiri : Ann poshi teli yeli wann poshi (German: "Food will be available as long as the forest"). Lal Ded, the Shivaist poet of Kashmir, was his contemporary and greatly influenced his development. In one of his poems he prays to God that he will give him the same level of spirituality that he gave Lal Ded.

His sayings are collected in the Nur-nama, which is very common in Kashmir. The Nur-nama also tells his life. It was written by Baba Nasib-ud-din Ghazi in Persich about 200 years after the death of Shaikh Nur-ud-din.

The Afghan governor Ata Muhammad Khan had coins minted with the name of Sheikh Nur-ud-din between 1808 and 1810.

The University of Kashmir honored him with the creation of a Shaikh-ul-Alam chair.

In 2016, the government of Jammu and Kashmir proposed renaming Srinagar airport to Sheikh-ul-Aalam International Airport , but the Indian central government refused.

shrine

The shrine of Sheikh-ul-Alam consists of khanqahs as well as the shrine itself , as accommodation for the pilgrims and is a pilgrimage site for people from all over Kashmir. The shrine owns 600 year old hand-knotted carpets from Persia and Kashmir, chandeliers and antiques, antique editions of the Koran .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gems of Kashmiri Literature and Kashmiriyat by PN Razdan: The Trio of Saint Poets.
  2. ↑ a b Soqte: Shaikh Nur-ud-din ( Memento from April 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Nund Reshi at: Saints and Sages - Ancient and Modern Ascetics in Kashmir, accessed November 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Gems of Kashmiri Literature and Kashmiriyat by PN Razdan (Mahanori)
  5. ↑ a b Jaishree Odin, Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir.
  6. ↑ GoI refuses to rechristen Srinagar airport as Sheikh-ul-Aalam int'l airport: RTI in: Greater Kashmir, December 12, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES N and Rishi; N and Reshi; Sheikh Noor ud-Din Noorani; Sheikh ul-Alam; Sahajanand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kashmiri Sufi and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1377
DATE OF DEATH 1438