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Hazrat Khawaja Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 1325 CE) also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in India. He was born in Badayun (east of Delhi), though he later settled in Delhi, where his shrine (Nizamuddin Dargah) is still located. His original name was Mohammed. He was the son of Ahmad Dainiyal, who came to Badayun from Ghazani in the year 1234-35. At the age of 20, Nizamuddin went to Ajodhan (the present Pak Pattan in Pakistan) and became the disciple of Fariduddin Ganj-i-Shakkar. He was also the spiritual master of Amir Khusro.

He was buried in what is now the Kaleemi Astana in the Tolichowki district (near Hussain Wali Shah Masjid) of Hyderabad, India, near him are buried his son and grandson as well as two great-grandsons and several others of the family including Pir Rasheed ul Hassan Jili ul Kaleemi. The Astana is connected to a Mosque where Friday prayers are offered.

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Pir SM Rasheed-ul-Hasan Jeeli-ul-Kaleemi (ra)(popularly known as Pir Rasheed) was the shajjada nasheen of the Kaleemi Astana and the Alami Sufi Center in Hyderabad. He was loved by many people around the world and was a Sufi teacher and healer in the Chishti Kaleemi lineage. His great gandfather S Muhammad Hasan Jeeli Kaleemi was the murshid of SM Abu Hashem Madani who was the murshid of Hazrat Inayat Khan (may Allah (swt) raise them all to a high station.