Bande Nawaz

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{{short description|14th and 15th-century Indian Sufi saint}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = [[Islam]]
| era = [[Islamic golden age]]
| image = Gulbarga-Dargah-maingate.JPG
| caption = [[Dargah]] of Banda Nawaz
| name = Muhammad Al-Hussaini
| birth_date = 7 August 1321
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[Delhi Sultanate]]
| death_date = 1 November 1422 (aged 101)
| death_place = [[Gulbarga Fort]], [[Gulbarga]], [[Bahmani Sultanate]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
| creed = [[Maturidi]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Nawaz|first=Bande|title=Tafseer-Al-Multaqat|publisher=Maktabah Nafais al-Quran|pages=6|volume=1}}</ref>
| ethnicity = [[Arab]]
| main_interests = [[Sufism]]
| influences = Disciple of [[Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi]]
| influenced = [[Sufism]]
}}
'''Muhammad bin Yousuf Al Hussaini''' (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422), commonly known as '''Banda Nawaz Gaisu Daraz''', was a [[Hanafi]] [[Maturidi]] scholar and [[Sufi]] saint from [[India]] of the [[Chishti Order]], who advocated understanding, tolerance and harmony among religions.

Gaisu Daraz was a disciple and then successor of Sufi saint [[Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi]]. When he moved to [[Daulatabad, Maharashtra|Daulatabad]] around 1400, owing to the [[Timur (Tamerlane)#Indian campaign|attack]] of [[Timur]] on Delhi, he took the Chishti Order to [[South India]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vAdbCq8HQBIC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=Nasiruddin+Chirag+-i-+Delhi&source=web&ots=aOZIh9Ffei&sig=8QEQTLeDGAM6O2cBiFx-gPaAwQE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result Jihad in the East: A Crescent Over Delhi] ''The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity'', by [[M. J. Akbar]]. Routledge, 2002. {{ISBN|0-415-28470-8}}. Page 111.</ref> He finally settled down in [[Gulbarga]], at the invitation of [[Bahmani Sultanate|Bahmani Sultan]], [[Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah]].<ref name=ur>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206115933/http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/27/stories/2007112760780600.htm Urs-e-Sharief of Khwaja Bande Nawaz in Gulbarga from tomorrow] "[[The Hindu]]", 27 November 2007.</ref>

AlHussaini left Delhi on December 17, 1398, because the city was under siege by [[Timur]] and its fall was imminent.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Social History of The Deccan 1300–1761, Eight Indian Lives|last=Eaton|first=Richard|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-521-51442-2|location=New Delhi}}</ref>

==Works==
Bande Nawaz wrote 195 books in [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Urdu]].<ref name=ur/> His ''[[masterpiece|magnum opus]]'', ''Tafseer Multaqat'', was compiled into one book very recently.{{When| date= May 2012}} He also composed a book on the [[Muhammad|Prophet of Islam]] titled ''Miraj-al Ashiqin'' for the instruction of the masses in [[Dakhni]], a South Indian branch of the Urdu language. He was the first Sufi to use this vernacular which was elaborated upon by many other Sufi saints of South India in later centuries.<ref>Mystical Dimensions of Islam By Annemarie Schimmel, Pg 351</ref> He wrote many treatises on the works on [[Ibn Arabi]] and [[Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi|Suhrawardi]], which made the works of these scholars accessible to Indian scholars and played a major role in influencing later mystical thought.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Irfan Habib|first=S.|date=October 2002|title=Book reviews and notices : M.T. ANSARI, ed., Secularism, Islam and modernity. Selected essays of Alam Khundmiri. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001. 308 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 250 (paperback)|url=|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|volume=36|issue=3|pages=568–570|doi=}}</ref> Other books authored are ''Qaseeda Amali'' and ''Adaab-al-Mureedein''.

==Death==
Bande Nawaz died aged 101 on 16 [[Dhu al-Qadah]] 825 Hijri in Gulbarga and was buried there. His tomb is a place of Ziyaarat.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Khwaja Bande Nawaz|url=http://shattari.blogspot.com/p/khwaja-bande-nawaz.html|url-status=live|access-date=1 November 2021}}</ref>
==Death anniversary==
His death anniversary takes place on 15, 16 and 17 Dhu al-Qadah at the Bande Nawaz mausoleum in Gulbarga. Several hundred thousand people from different religions gather to seek blessings.<ref name=ur/>

== In popular culture ==
Indian [[Muslim social]] films revolving around the saint and his [[dargah]] have been made. These include: ''Sultan E Deccan: Banda Nawaz'' (1982) by Malik Anwar, ''Banda Nawaz'' (1988) by Saini.<ref>{{cite book|title=Screen World Publication's 75 Glorious Years of Indian Cinema: Complete Filmography of All Films (silent & Hindi) Produced Between 1913-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7UEAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Screen World Publication|page=85}}</ref>

==Further reading==
* [http://shattari.blogspot.com/p/khwaja-bande-nawaz.html Khwaja Bande Nawaz]
==See also==
* [[Maudood Chishti]]
* [[Ashraf Jahangir Semnani]]
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Askari, Syed Hasan, ''Tazkira-i Murshidi—Rare Malfuz of the 15th-Century Sufi Saint of Gulbarga.'' Proceedings of the Indian Historical Records Commission (1952).
* Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, ''Gisudaraz on Wahdat al-Wujud.'' Studies in Islam 19 (1982), pp. 233–45.
* Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, ''Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni Gisu Daraz: On Sufism'' Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1985.
* Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, ''Shuhud vs. Wujud: A Study of Gisudiraz'' Islamic Culture 59 (1985), pp. 323–39.
* Siddiqi, Mohd. Sulaiman, ''Syed Mohd. al-Husaini Gisudaraz'' Islamic Culture 52 (1978), pp. 173–84.
==External links==
* [http://nammagulbarga.com/photo-gallery/kbn-darga About KBN Darga|NammaGulbarga.com]
* Pictures of Dargah Sharif {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424040255/http://www.aulia-e-hind.com/dargah/gulbarga.htm |date=24 April 2008 }}
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