Shaikh Bahlol Daryai

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Shaikh Muhammad Bahlol
شیخ محمد بہلول
Shaikh Bahlol Daryai shrine.jpg
Tomb of Bahlol Daryai
Born921 H (1515 CE)
Tibba Shah Behlol, Punjab
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Died983 H (1575 CE)
near Pindi Bhattian, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Resting placeDarbar Shah Behlol, Pindi Bhattian
Era Early Mughal era

Shaikh Muhammad Bahlol Daryai, also known as Shah Bahlul Chinioti (d. 1575) was a 16th century Punjabi Sufi saint best known for founding the Bahlol shahi sect of Qadiriyya Sufi order and for being the spiritual teacher of Madhu Lal Hussain, one of the earliest Punjabi poets. [1] [2] His shrine is located near Pindi Bhattian, in Punjab, Pakistan. [3] [4]

Shaikh Bahlol was born in 1515 CE at Tibba Shah Behlol near Lalian into the Sipra Jat clan. [4] His father Tāni (or Tīni) was a farmer. [4] Shaikh Bahlol was a disciple of Shah-i-Latif; [5] after travelling widely throughout Iran, Iraq and Arabia he later settled in his ancestral village near Chiniot, where he taught Madhu Lal Hussain for twelve years. Before his death he made Madhu Lal Hussain his representative in Lahore. [1] [6] According to some historians, one of his descendants Muhammad Ali went to Gulbarga in Deccan whose grandson Hyder Ali later became the ruler of Mysore. [2] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Bilgrami, Fatima Z. (1994). "Contributions of the "Qadiris" to the Folk Poetry of Punjab". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 55: 225–236. ISSN   2249-1937.
  2. 1 2 Mirza, Shafqat Tanveer (1991). Resistance Themes In Punjabi Literature. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications. pp. 20–21. ISBN   969-35-0101-2.
  3. ↑ Khalid, Haroon (20 October 2017). "These banyan trees are proof of Pakistan's roots in inter-religious peace and harmony". Scroll.in . Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Mirzā, Shafqat Tanvīr (1989). "Pīr o Mūrshid: Bahlūl". Shāh Ḥusain (in Urdu). Islāmābād: Lok Virs̲ah Ishāʻat Ghar. pp. 69–76. ISBN   978-969-468-001-9.
  5. ↑ Khan, Masood Ali; Ram, S. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Sufism. Vol. II: Sufism: Tenets, Orders & Saints. Anmol Publications. p. 336. ISBN   978-81-261-1311-8.
  6. ↑ Grewal, J. S. (2007). Lectures on History, Society, and Culture of the Punjab. Publication Bureau, Punjabi University. p. 74. ISBN   978-81-302-0085-9.
  7. ↑ Forrest, Denys Mostyn (1970). "An Empire and its Heirs". Tiger of Mysore: The Life and Death of Tipu Sultan. London: Chatto & Windus. pp. 9–10. ISBN   978-0-7011-1581-4.
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