"Sir-ul-Awliya, the most famous history of the Chishtiyya school written by Khwaja Amir Khurd, another disciple of Nizam-ud-din Awliya, tells the following story: âHis [Muin-ud-dinâs] blessed tongue uttered spontaneously, âWe have handed over Pithora alive to the army of Islam.â In those very days, Sultan Muiz-ud-din Sam arrived in Ajmer from Ghazni. Pithora had to face the army of Islam. He was captured alive by Sultan Muiz-ud-din⊠The Khwaja [Muinud-din] was a worker of great wonders. Before he reached Hindustan, all its cities right upto the point of sunrise were sunk in tumult and infidelity and were involved with idols and idolatry. Everyone among the rabble [Gods] of Hindustan claimed to be the great God and a co-sharer in the divinity of Allah. The people paid homage to stones, sods of clay, trees, quadrupeds, cows and bulls and their dung. The darkness of infidelism had made still more firm the seals on their hearts⊠Muin-ud-din was indeed the very sun of the true faith. As a result of his arrival, the darkness that had spread over this country was dispelled. It became bright and glowed in the light of Islam... Anyone who has become a Musalman in this country will stay a Musalman till the Day of Dissolution. His progeny will also remain Musalman⊠The people [of Hindustan] will be brought out of dar-ul-harb into dar-ul-Islam by means of many wars.""
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Amir Khurd, Siyar-ul-Awliya, New Delhi, 1985, pp. 111-12. Quoted in S.R.Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583
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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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