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| | #REDIRECT [[Karhan, Uttar Pradesh]] |
| '''Mir Shamsi''' was a mystic and a saint who lived in the Indian village of [[Karhan, Uttar Pradesh]].
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| He was born Syed Shamsuddin, and was the ''mooris-e-aala'' of Saadat Karhan district [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]]. (The ''mooris-e-aala'' is the patriarch of the family.) He died in the year 1651 AD. Not many records exist of his life, but this information can be read off his tombstone at his ''[[mazaar]]'' that is frequented by the locals and other who come to pay homage and ask for wishes to be granted.
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| [[File:The Headstone on Mir Shamsi's grave.JPG|thumb|The Headstone on Mir Shamsi's grave]]
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| In his lifetime, he had a reputation for helping people. He was born into a wealthy family, and helped the people of Karhan by getting a lake dug. This provided the villagers with much needed employment and water.
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| [[File:The lake that Mir Shamsi got dug.JPG|thumb|left|The lake that Mir Shamsi got dug]]
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| Recently{{when|date=May 2017}} a local politician whose wish of winning an election was fulfilled, built a structure to cover his originally unpretentious grave. [[File:The covered mazaar of Mir Shamsi.JPG|thumb|left|The covered mazaar of Mir Shamsi today]]
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| Mir Shamsi is also an ancestor of the poet, author, intellectual, bureaucrat and [[India]]n independence activist [[Ali Jawad Zaidi]] and [[Shamim Karhani]] (Syed Shahsuddin Haider) who was an [[Urdu]] poet of the 20th century.
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| [[Category:17th-century Islamic religious leaders]] | | [[Category:17th-century Islamic religious leaders]] |
| [[Category:Sufi saints]] | | [[Category:Sufi saints]] |
