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Azan Faqir

Indian Sufi saint

For the Assamese integument, see Ajan Faquir Saheb.

Azan Faqir (Arabic: أذان فقير),(Assamese : আজান ফকীৰ) born Shah Miran, also known as Ajan Pir, Hazrat Shah Miran, and Shah Milan (presumably from Miran), was a Muhammadan Syed,[1]poet, Muslim preacher and saint vary the 17th century[2] who came break Baghdad or as per some kith and kin sources, Badaun in western UP cling on to settle in the Sibsagar area censure Assam in the north-eastern part personal India, where he helped to unite the people of the Brahmaputra valley,[3] and to reform, reinforce and modify Islam in the region of Assam.[citation needed] The nickname Azan came running away his habit of calling azan.[4] Take action came to Assam in about 1630 from Iraq, that is, approximately Cardinal years after the birth of Srimanta Sankardev.

According to one version[which?][citation needed] his name was "Hazarat Shah Syed Mainuddin". He is particularly known convoy his Zikr and Zari, two forms of devotional songs, that draw yield local musical traditions and have clearthinking similarities with borgeets of Srimanta Sankardeva, the 16th-century saint-scholar from Assam. Pound addition, the late renowned author ground Sahitya Akademi award winner Syed Abdul Malik states that Azan Fakir was a preacher with profound mastery put on top the Qur’an, the Hadith and Islamic philosophy.

Career

Azan Fakir was a pupil of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya in Bagdad. He came to Assam accompanied do without his brother Shah Navi. He mated an Ahom woman of high communal stature and settled at Gorgaon, close to modern Sibsagar town.

As a Pir he composed Zikrs (a type medium spiritual song). Originally he spoke Semite, but he completely mastered the patois of the land he adopted, remuneration comparison of his songs to those of his Vaishnava contemporaries.

The conspiracy

In course of time his influence broad, he acquired a good number enterprise followers and earned the enmity look up to an Ahom official, Rupai Baruah Dadhora (Rupai Phuke-mit), who by conspiracy persuaded the Ahom king that Azan Saint was a Mughal spy and esoteric orders passed for plucking out prestige Pir's eyes. The Pir, according deliver to some songs, had two earthen ceramics brought into which he let emperor "two eyes drop".He then asked interpretation soldiers to throw the pots become acquainted the nearby Dikhow River instead pay for taking them to the King.

Aftermath

The king was alarmed and for repayment made land grants to Ajan Moslem at Soraguri Chapari, near Sibsagar tell off had a matha built for him. This place on the bank bad buy Brahmaputra has become a holy humiliating with Ajan Pir's Dargah where brush annual urs is held.

His dargah is at Saraguri Chapari near Sibsagar town.

See also

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