Khwaja Mu‘in al-Din Hasan Chishti Ajmeri رحمۃ اللہ علیہ
His personal name was Hasan, while his titles included Mu‘in al-Din, Mu‘in al-Awliya, Khalifat al-Rasul fi al-Hind, Hind al-Wali, Shahanshah-e-Mashaikh, Sultan al-‘Arifin, Burhan al-‘Ashiqin, Shaykh al-Islam, Gharib Nawaz, Sultan al-Hind, Na’ib Rasul fi al-Hind, and Sadr-e-Bazm-e-Chishtiyan.
He was both حسنی and حسینی, and his noble lineage reaches Amir al-Mu’minin حضرت علی المرتضیؓ in the thirteenth generation.
He was born in the region of Sijistan in 537 AH / 1139 CE. For this reason, some biographers referred to him as “Sijzi,” and he became widely known as Hasan Sijzi.
For the first eleven years of his life, he was raised in great comfort and prosperity. Read more [...]