Khwaja Hasan Nizami

Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Born	Hasan Nizami (1878-01-06)6 January 1878 / 2 Moharram 1295 AH Delhi, India
Died	July 31, 1955(1955-07-31) (aged 77) / 10 Zilhajj, 1374 AH New Delhi, India
Other names	Hasan Nizami
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Poetry, Sufi tariqa
Title	Khawaja
Predecessor	Meher Ali Shah
Successor	Khwaja Hasan Sani Nizami
Spouse	Mehmooda Bano
Children	Khwaja Hasan Sani Nizami
Parents	Khwaja Hafiz Syed Ashiq Ali Nizami (father) Hazrat Sayeda Chaheti Begum Nizami (mother)

Khwaja Hasan Nizami (6 January 1878-31 July 1955) was an Indian Sufi saint and a known Urdu essayist and humorist and satirist who wrote many essays for the Mukhzun Akhbar magazine. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} He wrote more than 60 books including the incidents of Indian Rebellion of 1857, while Mulla Wahidi writes that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his credit. ^{[5] [6]} Being a Sufi he had many disciples and it appeared in his literature.^{[ citation needed ]}

His maternal grandfather Ghulam Hasan Chisti was a friend and spiritual advisor to Bahadur Shah Zafar and frequently visited the Red Fort. ^[7] His mother used to tell him the stories of the Mughal family she had heard from her father. He had himself met Kulsum Zamani Begum, Zafar's daughter. He has narrated the tragic stories of Mirza Nasir-ul-Mulk, Zafar's grandson, who eventually became a servant of a British family and later crawled on his knees and begged in Bazar Chitli Kabr. Mirza Kamar Sultan, another of Zafar's grandson also used to beg at the Jama Masjid.

Works

Nizami "was of Nizamuddin Auliya's known silsilã, and widely honoured in the Muslim world." ^[8]

Literary works

Khwaja wrote many books including: ^{[9] [10] [11]}

• Fãtami Dãwat-i-Islam (1920) ^[8]
• Gadar ki Subah aur Sham
• Tareekh-e-Firaun
• Krishan Beeti
• Madar-e-Hamdard
• Sair-e-Delhi
• Government Aur Khilafat
• Ghalib's Diary
• Bahaddur Shah Zafar's Diary (publisher) ^[12]
• Begumat Kay Ansoo: Dehli Kay Afsanay (also translated as Tears of the Begums, Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857 ^[13] )
• Ap Biti (autobiography) ^[14]

Commemoration of Muharram

As most of the Muslims had migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947 AD, Delhi had no Shia orator to address the Majlis during Muharram. At this crucial juncture, Khwaja Hasan Nizami filled the gap by addressing Majlis at Panja Shareef. He was also supported by Maulana Ahmad Saeed, Maulana Zubair Qureshi  and Justice Vyas Dev Mishra in his endeavor to ensure sustainability of commemoration of Muharram against odds. Despite Khawaja Hasan Nizami Being part of the Ahl us Sannah wal Jammah. ^[15]

Dr Majid Deobandi had written a PhD thesis on Khwaja Hasan Nizami. ^[16]

References

1. Ernst, C.; Lawrence, B. (30 April 2016). Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. Springer. ISBN   978-1-137-09581-7.
2. By Amaresh Datta (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2. ISBN   9788126011940.
3. Ilmi Encyclopaedia of General Knowledge. 1979.
4. Tully, Mark (22 November 2017). India in Slow Motion. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN   978-93-5118-097-5.
5. Naqvi, 1978.
6. Safvi, Khwaja Hasan Nizami & Rana. "How Bahadur Shah Zafar's daughter had to flee from Delhi after he lost his empire". The Scroll. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
7. Mughlon Ke Antim Din, Khwaja Hasan Nizami, Sahitya Mandal, 1933, p. 12.
8. Goel, Sita Ram (1995). "Appendix, Islamic Manifesto for India". Muslim Separatism, Causes and Consequences. Voice of India, New Delhi (also known as Voice of Dharma). ISBN   978-8185990262.
9. "Khwaja Hasan Nizami", www.goodreads.com, retrieved 4 July 2020.
10. Dehalvi, Khawaja Hasan Nizami (2004). Tareekh-e-Firon (in Urdu). Hafiz Jamil Printers.
11. City of My Heart: Four Accounts of Love, Loss and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century Delhi. Hachette India. 18 September 2018. ISBN   978-93-5195-259-6.
12. "A chronicler of 1857 par excellence". Hindustan Times. 3 May 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
13. Nizami, Khwaja Hasan (25 July 2022). Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857. Hachette India. ISBN   978-93-93701-15-2.
14. Marcia Hermansen, Sufi Autobiography in the 20th Century: Worldly and Spiritual Journeys of Khwaja Hasan Nizami” in Tales of God’s Friends: Sufi Hagiography ed. John Renard (Berkeley: University of California, 2009), pp. 286-300.
15. Naqvi, Mazhar (27 November 2014), "Heritage Guru: Bahadur Shah Zafar's Favorite Dargah-Panja Sharif", Heritage Guru, retrieved 13 June 2019.
16. "Dr. Majid Deobandi". www.majiddeobandi.in. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

External links

• Marcia Hermansen, Professor at Loyola University Chicago has compiled a bibliography of Khwaja Hasan Nizami's Publications He also wrote Stories like Beghmat ke Ansuo And Thele Wala ShehzaDa.