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Sunan Ampel (born Raden Ahmad Rahmatullah or Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah; 1401–1481) [1] was one the nine revered Javanese Muslim saints, or Wali Songo, credited with the spread of Islam in Java. According to local history, around Demak the mosque of Demak Masjid Agung Demak was built by Sunan Ampel in 1479 CE, [ 2 ] but other sources attributed ...
Guru Got initiated by Nimaichand Goswami (Uthali, Bangladesh) Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji ( IAST : Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī ; 1838–1915) is a well-known acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism , and is regarded as a Mahatma or saint by followers of his lineage.
The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.. Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1]
Baba Wali Kandhari was a Sufi pir who was born in 1476 at Kandahar. In about 1498, he moved to Hasan Abdal to the western side of mountains. The terrain was hilly and ...
Abdul Qadir Jilani holds the unique position in the hierarchy of Sufi Saints (Wali) having achieved the Rank (Maqam) of "Ghawth" (the Helper). [7] [8] He uses the title of "Ghawth" (the Helper) in the dialogues between himself and Allah in 'The Ghawthiyya' where Allah refers to him as "Ghawth 'l-A'zam" (the Supreme Helper). [9]
His biography finds mention in Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th-century document written by Mughal Emperor Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. [ 10 ] At the age of twenty, Nizāmuddīn went to Ajodhan (the present Pakpattan Sharif in Punjab, Pakistan ) and became a disciple of the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar , commonly known as Baba Farid.
Malik Ibrahim (died 7 April 1419), also known as Sunan Gresik or Kakek Bantal, was the first of the Wali Songo, the nine men generally thought to have introduced Islam to Java. [1]: 241 His habit of placing the Qu'ran on a pillow led to him receiving the nickname Kakek Bantal (lit. Pillow Grandfather). [2]
He later took Sannyasa (life of renunciation) in the Chandannath Temple, Jumla District, where his guru named him Yogi Naraharinath. [ 3 ] At the age of nine, he was enrolled into the Vatukbhairavanath Siddha Chandannath Bhasha Pathshala in Jumla, and later he migrated to India aged eight and learned Sanskrit language .