page_title: Naqshbandi
section_title: Ahmad Sirhindi
hierarchical_section_title: Naqshbandi / Prominent sheikhs / Ahmad Sirhindi
caption_attribution_description: English: () — Free Art license (info) SUNDAS AMIN KA DARBAR
context_page_description: The Naqshbandi or Naqshbandiyah, is a major Sunni spiritual order of Sufism. It got its name from Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari. Some Naqshbandi masters trace their lineage through Ali, his son-in-law and successor, in keeping with most other Sufis. In Iraq, people belonging to the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order are fighting the Iraqi government intending to get their country back from "American control".
context_section_description: Shaykh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī (1564–1624) was considered a Mujaddid and a leading Naqshbandi Sheikh from India. He was from an ashraf family claiming descent from caliph Umar, he received most of his early education from his father, Shaykh 'Abd al-Ahad and memorised the Qur'an. He was trained in all Sufi orders by the age of 17 and was given permission to initiate and train followers in the Naqshbandi Order.
  Sheikh Ahmad made revolutionary changes to the Mughal empire. He persuaded Jahangir to disallow drinking alcohol and destruction of pubs and clubs. He made the Emperor revert the rule of exemption of sacrificing cows. Instead, religious conferences and meetings for spiritual development (known as halqas) were held throughout the territory.
  Aside from this, Sheikh Ahmad wrote several letters to his murideen (pupils) and khulafa in Turkish and Arabic. These letters are a marvelous collection of spiritual knowledge and religious information. Later these were collected and preserved in book form by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan, and translated to Urdu by Syed Zawar Hussain Shah. This book is known as Maktoobat, and, as Ghulam Mustafa says, is the best and most knowledgeable book after Quran and Hadith and are applicable for all problems to rise within 1000 years. For this purpose, Sheikh Ahmad is known as Mujaddid Alif Sani.
  Sheikh Ahmad's three sons died in a plague, all religious and spiritually well developed. These included Muhammad Sadiq, Muhammad Farrukh and Muhammad Isa, his favorite son being Muhammad Sadiq, the eldest. His death caused Sheikh Ahmad immense sorrow, but he says that bearing this pain of loss gave him so many divine rewards that he'd have been not given them for any other deed.
caption: Shrine of Islamic Naqshbandi saints of Allo Mahar Sharif
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