Author Archives: Imam Salim Chishti

Transcendence: A Sufi Music Festival

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Imam Salim Chishti

Join us for a virtual Sufi music festival featuring world-renowned performers from Morocco, France, Iran, and India. Through dance, recitation, poetry, and prayer, Sufis have long engaged within the spiritual practices of sama (“listening”) and dhikr (“remembrance”) to gain transcendence … Continue reading →

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12 September – Urs of Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan (as) 2016CE, Munich, Germany

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Imam Salim Chishti

Pir-o-Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan passed on to the next life on 12 September 2016 in Munich, Germany. He was the leader of the International Sufi Movement founded by his father Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan.The following is taken from a page … Continue reading →

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17th Muharram Urs Ghulam Qutb al-Din, Lahore, Pakistan,1210CE

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Imam Salim Chishti

Qutb-ud-din Aibak (Arabic: قطب الدين أيبك‎, Persian: قطب الدین ایبک‎; lit. “Axis of the Faith”) was a Turkic king of Northwest India who ruled from his capital in Delhi where he built the Qutub Minar and the Quwwat Al Islam mosque. He was of Turkic descent from central Asia(modern day … Continue reading →

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17th Muharram Urs Shah Mohammed Afaq Delvi, Delhi

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Imam Salim Chishti

Shah Mohammed Afaq Delvi was a Naqshabandi sheikh and his dargha is near Pul Bangash Metro Station On Roshan Aaraa Road Delhi.

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14th Muharram Urs Hazrat Khwaja Mumshad Dinawari, Dinawar, Iraq, 299AH/911CE

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Imam Salim Chishti

Mumshad Dinwari, or Karimuddin Mun’im, was an early Sufi saint, a successor to Abu Hubairah Basri, seventh link in the Sufi silsilah of the Chishti Order, and the Master of Abu Ishaq Shami. There seem to be many versions of … Continue reading →

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