"Love is not like a cup of wine, given to the indiscreet.
Tears are not like rubies gifted to worthless one."

 

HAZRAT KHWAJA ABUL HASSAN
AMIR KHUSRO: (R.A)
(1253 A.D. to 1325 A.D.) (The Parrot of Hind)

(3) Path of Sufism

His Holiness’s own life was a living example of the mystic experience. Mystic traditions were inherited from saints and poets into the whole being of Amir Khusro (R.A). It can rightly be said that Khusro was the very soul of His Holiness. As once said by His Holiness that if it were permissible by Islamic law he would have willed that Khusro be buried in the same grave.

The moral teachings found in the writings of Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) and the feeling of fraternity found in his behavior towards the common man is an ample proof of the characteristics of the Chishti Order which he so deeply imbibed at the feet of His Holiness.

Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) was a great poet, writer and a Sufi fakir till his last breath. The end came suddenly between the Master and the disciple. Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) was in Lakhnawti. Upon news of his illness, Hazrat Amir Khusro came back to Delhi but in vain to find that the Light was put off. He stood there seeing his Beloved Master who had left him alone. With his tearful eyes and heavy mournful heart he broke down and uttered a loveable memorable couplet:

"Gori sove sej per mukh per dare kes
chal Khusro ghar apne, ren bhayi chahun des."

("O, handsome you are sleeping on a nice bed covering your face with the hair, when every where is darkness, so Khusro you leave this world.")

Hazrat Amir Khurd (R.A) writes in ‘Siyarul Aulia’: that "Immediately when Khusro arrived to Delhi he went to the grave of His Holiness Hazrat Syed Nizamuddin Aulia (R.A), where he blackend his face and rolled over in dust in utter grief tearing his garments." Six months after the event in the same year on 18th shawwal 725H/1325 A.D. on the same day His Holiness broken-hearted disciple Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) left this enchanting world of colours and conflicts.

 

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—Hazrat Amir Khusro.

 

  1. Life History
  2. A Great Scholar and Secular Poet
  3. Path of Sufism
  4. Son of an Indian Soil
  5. Writings and Works