Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, commonly known as Mujaddid-e-Alf-Sani (the reformer of the second millennium), was bora on 26 June, 1564. in Sirhind, a city of East Punjab. He was educated at home and was inducted into mysticism by his father, Shaikh Abdul-al-Ahad, who was himself an eminent Sufi. He learnt the Quran …
Shaikh Bahauddin Zakriya (1182-1262) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakriya was born in 1182 at Kot-Krur, not far from Multan, where his grandfather, originally from Makkah, had finally settled. After receiving his early education in Multan he went to Khurasan and completed his advanced studies under well-known scholars at Bukhara and Madina. At Baghdad he got himself enrolled …
Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri (1142-1236) Khawaja Moinuddin was born in 1142 at Sanjar in the territory of Sijistan (or Sistan) and died at Ajmer in 1236 AD. He took to the life of self imposed poverty ( faqir) at the early age of fifteen when he was working in a garden which he had inherited …