Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin (Rahmatullah Alaih)Chirage Dehli

 Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin (Rahmatullah Alaih)

Chirage Dehli

Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli

   Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli was the Khalifa-e-Azam (spiritual successor) of Hazrat Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia .His Dargah (Shrine) is situated at Chirag Dehli village near Kalkaji in New Delhi.His ancestor Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Lateef had settled at Lahore after migrating from outside India. Hazrat Shaikh Yayah the father of Hazrat Naseeruddin was born in Lahore. Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli was born in Faizabad in Uttar Pardesh therefore he is also called as Awadhi..His father died when Hazrat Naseeruddin was only nine years old. At the age of 40 Hazrat Naseeruddin migrated from Awadh to Delhi and became the Mureed (Disciple) of Sultanul Mashaikh Hazrat Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia Mehboobe Elahi. Sufi Saint Hazrat Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz whose shrine is situated in Gulbarga, Karnatak State in India is the famous Khalifa of Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli. Hazrat Naseeruddin was a highest respected Sufi saint of his time.He had also devoted his whole life for the worship of Almighty Allah and in the service of his Piro Murshid Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Mehboob-e-Elahi. Hazrat Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli was died during the reign of Sultan Feroze Shah Tughlaq on 18^th Ramazan, 757 Hijri at Delhi.The Graves of his other two Khalifas Hazrat Kamaluddin Allama and Hazrat Khawaja Mohammed Sawi are situated inside the Dargah of Hazrat Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli.

  Chirage Dehli

       Why Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin is called “Chirage Dehli”?

      A great Karamat (Miracle) is attributed with Hazrat Naseeruddin and the ancient ‘Baoli’( stepwell) of Hazrat Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia.The Baoli is about 700 years old and is still full of water. It is said that when the Baoli of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia was being constructed under the supervision of his mureed and Khalifa(disciple) Hazrat Naseeruddin, then at the same time the construction  work was going on at the Fort of Sultan Ghayasuddin Tughlaq at Tughlaq Abad in Delhi.The labourers working at the fort used to sleep at day time because they had to work at night time at the Baoli of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia. The Sultan was very angry and enquired about this from his Wazeer (Minister) who told him that our labourers used to work at night at the Baoli of  Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia as they had great respect for the saint. Consequently the labourers  fall  asleep during the day time at our Fort.The Sultan was very jealous and ordered the Shop keepers to stop the supply of oil to Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia so that his Baoli could not be constructed in night without any Chirag (Lamp). Under such circumstances when there was no oil, Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia called his Mureed and Khalifa Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin and told him to take water of the Baoli and use the same in Chirag (Lamps) instead of oil. Hazrat Naseeruddin obeyed the command of his Piro Murshid( spiritual master) and put the water of the Baoli in all the Chirags (Lamps) with some dry leaves of grass and ignited the same. It was a great Karamat of the saint that the water of the Baoli was burnt just like oil in the lamps and the work of Baoli was completed and from that time Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin was called as Chirage Dehli.The locality where his Shrine (Dargah) is situated is also named after him and is known as Chirage Dehli.