"From there the Khwaja went to Ajmer. ... Reaching there he decided to sit under a tree, but the camel keepers ordered him away as the area belonged to the Ra'i. The Khwaja and his followers moved to a place near the Anasagar Lake. His servants killed a cow and cooked kebabs for him. Some members of the Khwajaâs party went to Anasagar and the others to Pansela Lake for ablutions. There were one thousand temples on the two lakes. The Brahmans stopped the ablutions and the party complained to the Khwaja. He sent his servant to bring water for his ewer. As soon as the ewer touched the Pansela Lake, all the lakes, tanks and wells around became dry. The Khwaja went to the Anasagar Lake temple and asked the name of the idol. He was told it was called Sawi Deva. The Khwaja asked whether the idol had talked to them. On receiving a negative reply he made the idol recite kalima and converted it into a human being, naming it Saâdi. This caused a sensation in the town. Prithviraj ordered his prime minister Jaipal who was also a magician, to avert the evil influence of the Khwaja. Jaipal proceeded to fight the Khwaja with 700 magical dragons, 1,500 magical discs and 700 disciples. The Khwaja drew a circle bringing his party within it under his protection, and succeeded in killing all the dragons and disciples. Pithaura and Jaipal begged the Khwajaâs forgiveness. The Khwajaâs prayers restored water to the lakes, tanks and wells. A large number of people accepted Islam. Jaipal decided to compete with the Khwaja in the performance of miracles. Sitting on his deer skin he flew to the heavens. âThe Khwaja ordered his slippers to bring Jaipal back to earth, which they did. On Jaipalâs request to show him some miracles, the Khwajaâs spirit flew to the highest heaven, where Jaipal also joined him. Getting nearer to the divine presence, on the Khwajaâs orders Jaipal accepted Islam in order to gain the full benefit of that spiritual bliss. When they returned the Khwaja and his party stayed in the town. Pithaura refused to accept Islam and the Khwaja prophesied he would be handed over to the Islamic army.â (from the Jawahir-i Faridi written in 1623) p.117"
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Moinuddin Chishti
1142 â 1236
ChishtÄ« MuÊżÄ«n al-DÄ«n កasan SijzÄ« (1142â1236 CE), known more commonly as MuÊżÄ«n al-DÄ«n ChishtÄ« or Moinuddin Chishti, or reverently as a Shaykh MuÊżÄ«n al-DÄ«n or MuÊżÄ«n al-DÄ«n or KhwÄjÄ MuÊżÄ«n al-DÄ«n by Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, was a Persian Muslim preacher, ascetic, religious scholar, philosopher, and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the famous Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism.
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