Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Nasiruddin Mehmood Roshan Chirag e Delvhi Chishty Nizami R.a - Shrine in New Delhi - South, India

The dargah is really quiet and peaceful, unlike the more famous Nizamuddin Auliya. Just like how the saint Chirag Dilli himself preferred peace and quiet. Not fond of the renovated color scheme, but that's the cost of time. Fascinating study of the old Delhi area, and an old but slightly lesser known neighborhood. I did a heritage tour with intachh and really enjoyed exploring this lesser known dargah. The Chirag Dilli village was just a few mins walk from the Chirag Dilli metro station.

Approach is quite confusing because of network of very narrow lanes. But not far from main road. Surrounding is quite clean and not crowded. Inside complex is quite clean and peaceful. Good arrangements of water and toilets.

Beautiful place located in Delhi by area chiraag e Delhi itself. Famous Sufi saint. Who lighted the Diya in water .

Such a peaceful place

It's good to see our ancient wealth in good condition. It's very peaceful and clean place. Salute for all people who contribute to clean and maintain this place if worship.

Hazrat khwaja Nasiruddin Mehmood Chirag Dahlvi dargah is one of the most famous dargah of India. It's most peaceful and soothing place where we can connect ourselves to god. We can offer flowers/scent/holy sheets to the shirine in respect of Hazrat khwaja Nasiruddin Mehmood baba. We can give funds to caretaker of dargah because free food are given to needy person. All positive wishes(dua) are full filled by baba.

After his death, his tomb was built by Firuz Shah Tughluq (r. 1351 - 1388), the Sultan of Delhi in 1358, and later two gateways were added on either side of mausoleum. One of noted addition was a mosque built by a later Mughal emperor, Farrukhsiyar, in the early 18th century, and popular among both Muslims and non-Muslims. A humble tomb of the founder of Lodhi dynasty, Bahlul Khan Lodhi (r.1451-89) lies close to the shrine. Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehalvi, unlike his spiritual master Nizamuddin Auliya, did not listen to sema, which was considered un-Islamic by a section of the Muslim intelligentsia in that period. He did not however pass any specific judgement against it. This is the reason why even today, qawwali is not performed near his shrine in Delhi. Nasiruddin's descendants are to be found far and wide as a lot of them moved down South to Hyderabad. Nasiruddin Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi (or Chiragh-e-Delhi)was born as Syed Nasiruddin Mahmud AlHassani around 1274, at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.Dehlavi's father, Syed Mahmud Yahya AlHassani, who traded in Pashmina, and his grandfather, Syed Yahya Abdul Latif AlHassani, first migrated from Khorasan, northeastern Iran, to Lahore, and thereafter settled in Ayodhya, in Awadh. His father died when he was only nine years of age and he received his early education from Maulana Abdul Karim Sherwani, and later continued it with Maulana Iftikhar Uddin Gilani. At the age forty, he left Ayodhya for Delhi, where he became the disciple of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya. It was here that Dehlavi stayed for the rest of his life as his murid (disciple),and after his death, became his successor. In time, he also became a known poet in Persian language. He died in 17 Ramzan 757 Hijri or 1356 AD,[12] at the age of 82, and is buried in a part of South Delhi, India which is known as "Chirag Delhi" after him.

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