Question

Ajmer is associated with the Sufi saint________.

Answer 1

Hint: Sufism is more flexible than Islam when it comes to praying the One Lord Allah, as it has its own fluid ways of connecting with the god whereas, there are some prescribed rules and obligations of worshipping. In contemporary times Sufism is practised in Egypt, Senegal and Morocco.

Complete answer:
The Sufi shrine ( dargah) of the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, a renowned Sufi saint is located at Ajmer, Rajasthan in India. Khwaja Moinuddin was also known as Khwaja Ghareeb Nawaz. He was an Islamic scholar, philosopher and a Persian Muslim preacher.

He settled in the Indian subcontinent in the thirteenth century, he is the most beloved and celebrated Indian Sufi saint. He originated from the Chishti Sufi order, which began in a small town in Chisht near Afghanistan and was the eighth in the line of succession since Abu Ishaq Shami, the founder of the Chishti order. The Chishti order was one of the four main Sufi orders of Qadiri of Iran, Suhrawardi, Naqshbandi, who traces their lineage to the first Caliph of Islam, Abu Bakr and Chishti. The Chishti Sufism chain spread throughout the Indian sub-continent after Nizamuddin Auliya. Amir Khusro, Khwaja Salim Chishti, Khwaja Banda Nawaz are some of the Sufi saints of the Chishti order.

Note: Sufi, means 'purity' in one sense and the other implies pious ascetics who withdrew from urban life, during early Islam. It can be attributed as an altered state of consciousness which is attributed in a religious way.