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{{Short description|Islamic shrine in Chadoora, Budgam, India}}
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'''Tomb of Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi''' or '''Ziyarat e Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi''' or '''Araqi Shrine''' is a religious place of [[Kashmiri Muslims]] located at [[Chadoora, Budgam]]. In this shrine there is buried [[Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi]] and Malik Hyder a Kashmiri Historian.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://budgam.nic.in/pgHolyPlaces.htm|title=Ziyarat E Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201426/http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02aug23/news.htm|archive-date=2007-09-27|title=Thousands join Shia leader’s funeral - Aga Sahib laid to rest in Budgam|date=2002-08-23|website=dailyexcelsior.com|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02aug23/news.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref>
This shrine is situated in the plains of Chadoora, Budgam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thekashmirhorizon.com/2018/01/29/noted-scholar-aga-syed-muhammad-fazlullah-passes-away|title=Noted scholar Aga Syed Muhammad Fazlullah passes away|publisher=|website=thekashmirhorizon.com}}</ref>
The shrine was constructed by [[Aga Syed Yousuf]] himself to honor Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi.<ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref><ref>[http://www.raheislam.org] {{dead link|date=May 2018}}</ref>

==Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi==
Mir Syed Mohammad Isfani alias Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi was an Iranian Sufi Muslim saint, known for having introduced the tenets held by [[Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani|Muhammad Noorbaksh Qahistani]], a 15th-century Iranian [[Sufism|Sufi]] who gave name to the [[Noorbakshia Islam|Noorbakshia]] school of [[Islam]].<ref name="Bakshi1997">{{cite book|author=Shiri Ram Bakshi|title=Kashmir: Valley and Its Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_U1LEY1yWmagC|year=1997|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-85431-97-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_U1LEY1yWmagC/page/n16 231]}}</ref> Araqi was part of the order of [[Twelver|Twelver Shia]] Sufis in [[Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] who greatly influenced the [[Social system|social fabric]] of the [[Kashmir Valley]] and its surrounding regions.<ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref>

==Death==
Araqi died in 1515 and was buried at [[Zadibal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Zaddibal]] in [[Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir]]. <ref>تاریخ شیعیان کشمیر</ref><ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref> His body was later shifted to [[Chadoora]] for unknown reasons, where he is currently buried at a [[Shams-ud-Din Araqi's Tomb|Tomb of Shams-ud-Din Araqi]] or Araqi shrine. Araqi was a descendant of [[Musa al-Kadhim]], the [[The Twelve Imams|seventh Imam]] in [[Twelver|Twelver Shia Islam]]. <ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref>

[[File:family_tree_of_msa.jpg|thumb|Family tree of Mir Shams-ud-din Araqi]]

==Friday prayers==
People offer Friday prayers at the shrine. Majlis is also held at the shrine.<ref>تاریخ کشمیر مطبوعہ از راہ اسلام آرگنائزیشن</ref> People across the valley come here to visit the shrine. Anjuman e Sharie Shian is the custodian of the shrine.

==Scenario==
This shrine is protected with cemented wall. There are many bathrooms attached to it. Many rooms have been built for pilgrims and travellers. The area of the shrine and its ground is about 10 kanals. This shrine was permanently closed in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020 this shrine was properly sanitised and reopened for pilgrims.

==See also==
* [[Aga Sahib Shrine]]
* [[Destruction of Kashmiri Shias]]
* [[Tafazzul Husain Kashmiri]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Sufism in Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Sufi shrines in India]]

Tomb of Shams-ud-Din Araqi - Revision history

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