The Ishq-Nuri Tariqa or Ishq-Nuri Sufi Order, is a branch or offshoot of the famous, and much older Chistiyya Sufi mystical teaching order, or system[1]
Origins
editThe Order was founded by the Chishti Sufi sage and shaykh (master/teacher) Khwaja Khalid Mahmood Siddiqui al-Chishti in the late 1960s[2] in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. The founder was a sage initiated originally in the Chishti-Nizami section of the traditional Chishti Order, who felt that a more modern, and 'contemporaneous expression' of the teachings of this system was needed.[3] The Ishq-Nuri order sought to make Ishq—Divine Love—as its essential teaching basis[4] and in this, reflected many of the ideas of earlier Sufi sages and saints like Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and Baba Farid[5] as well as other universal Sufis masters such as Rumi, Hakim Sanai and others.[6] A broad, universal love and thankfulness, remains one of the key tenets of the order's teaching.[7]
Practice
editThe Ishq-Nuri continue to practice on a small scale within South Asia only, mostly within Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.[8] It is believed that some people in Europe and parts of the Middle East are now also starting to follow this order [9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Akber Ahmed, 'The Light beyond the Veil: Into the Esoteric World of Sufis and Sufism in South Asia' pub Lahore and Karachi: Gnostic Publishers Ltd, 1977, pp 69-72
- ^ Ahmed, 1977, p 69
- ^ KM Siddiqui, 'A Sufi Path to Knowledge' Lahore: Aman Books, 1971, p III the Preface
- ^ Siddiqui, p 15
- ^ M Haeri 'The Chishtis:A Living Light', Oxford: OUP, 2002
- ^ W Chittick 'The Sufi Path of Love', Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1983
- ^ Ahmed, p 70
- ^ Sheykh Omer Tarin, 'The Ishq Nuri Chisti Sufis: A Brief Introduction to their history, beliefs and practices' in Rah i Haqq ed Sufi Ghulam Hussain Chishti, New Delhi: 2012, pp 21-48
- ^ Tarin, 47-48
Further reading
edit- C Ernst and B Lawrence Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond , New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002.
- Amatullah Armstrong Chishti, The Lamp of Love, Karachi: OUP, 2005.
- M Jaffer The Book of Moinuddin Chishti , New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2008.
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