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name	Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha| image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1830s| birth_place = Kabul| death_date = 1930s| death_place = Kabul| resting_place = Kabul	Qadiriyya wa Naqshbandiyya>Naqshbandism)

Sayyid Mir Fazlullah bin Sayyid Mir Hasan Naqshbandi (born in Kabul) was a Sunni Saint and Mir and the highest Qadi (Qadi ul Qudhad) and Grand Mufti of the Emirate of Afghanistan.

Ancestry

Sayyid Mir Fazlullah is a Sayyid (a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib). Among his ancestors are seven of the Twelve Imams, and in another lineage eleven of the Twelve Imams, Sayyid Bahauddin Naqshband, Sayyid Alauddin Atar, and Khwaja Khawand Mahmud (also known as Hazrat Ishaan) also.After the Battle of Karbala, the ancestors of Sayyid Mir Fazlullah, known as Ahl al-Bayt went back to Medina.Imam Ali ibn al-Hussein (2001). The Complite Edition of the Treatise on Rights. Qum: Ansariyan Publications. From there Musa al Kazim was forced to go to Iraq.Sharif al-Qarashi2, Baqir (2000). The Life Of Imam Musa Bin Ja’far aL-Kazim (PDF). Translated by Jasim al-Rasheed. Iraq: Ansarian The Musavis, i.e. the descendants of Musa al Kadhim, settled to Persia. One of them was Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ismail Muhammad Hakim, father of Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latif, an ancestor of Sayyid Mir Fazlullah. The descendants of Sayyid Mir Latif immigrated to Bokhara and after that to Kabul to guide the Muslims there, where Sayyid Mir Fazlullah was born.Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore), p. 65Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq (M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis LahorinSayyid Mir Fazlullah’s ancestors were as said also Askari Sayyids, i.e. descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari, through his son Sayyid Ali Akbar,WEB, Shajara-e-nasab lineages of descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari r.a.-Shajara.org,shajara.org/2020/06/29/1426/, 2020-06-29, en, whose existence was hidden, because of political conflicts.al-Kafi, by Muhammad Ya’qub Kulayni. Translated by Muhammad Sarwar. Chap. 124, Birth of Abi Muhammad al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali, p. 705Dr.Annemarie Schimmels book “Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-Century Muslim India” BRILL, 1976, p. 32 Sayyid Ali Akbars descendants also migrated to Bokhara, where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born.Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq (BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis LahorinSultanova, Razia (2011). “Naqshbandiyya”. From Shamanism to Sufism. I.B.Tauris. p. 32-37. {{ISBN|978-1-84885-309-6}}. A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan,WEB,www.nazariapak.info/Sufism/Hazarat-Ehsan.php, Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust, Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F.Richards p. 159 whose descendants later immigrated to variable regions of South Asia, like Khorasan, today known as Afghanistan in order to spread the Ishaqiyya Naqshbandiyya branch’s teachings.Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis LahorinWEB,www.nazariapak.info/Sufism/Hazarat-Ehsan.php, Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust, Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F.Richards p. 159the Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition” written and investigated by: Itzchak Weismann; company: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (p. 52)

Family

His family was the highest authority of the descendants of Muhammad in Afghanistan, holding an office similar to that of the Naqib ul Ashraf in Iraq. Their title was Sayyid ul Sadaat.Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)p.335, Khawajagan Naqshband, by Mir Assadullah Sadat, Chapter 8His older brothers were Sayyid Mir Jan, the highest authority of the Naqshbandi Tariqa and Sayyid ul Sadaat Mir Sayyid Mahmud Agha, Deputy of Sayyid Mir Jan.His family was especially known for their saintness and deep knowledge in Fiqh and Tariqah, which was transmitted from father to son from Muhammad. Furthermore, they initiated projects for the sake of disadvantaged people, especially orphan children.They were also inheritors of many historical relics, like clothing collections of Imam Hussein ibn Ali.Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)p.335, Khwajagan Naqshband, Mir Assadullah Sadat, Chapter 8

Lineage

He is a descendant of Muhammad’s daughter and son-in-law Fatimah al-Zahra and Ali ibn Abi Talib through a line including Imamzadeh Hamzah

Career

Sayyid Mir Fazlullah was educated by his father Sayyid ul Sadaat Sayyid Mir Hasan in Afghanistan.Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)p.335 ff; Khwajagan Naqshband, by Mir Asadullah Sadat, chapter 8He became Qadi and was known for his stance on the prestige and enforcement of Sharia law.Khwajagan Naqshband, by Mir Asadullah Sadat, chapter 8Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis LahorinSayyid Mir Fazlullah was internationally acknowledged and was a spiritual retreat for Sultan Abdülhamit II.Tazkare Khanwade Hazrat ishaan, Edarat Talimat naqshbandiyya, by Muhammad Yasin Qasvari, p. 312In one of his visits to Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, he held a speech, that attracted the masses in such a way, that a sign of trance and ecstasy could be seen on the faces of the audience. Upon this Sultan Abdul Hamid II, asked Sayyid Mir Fazlullah to stay in Istanbul and to become the Grand Mufti. Sultan Abdulhamid II immediately sent a letter to Amir Habibullah to ask for his transfer to Istanbul. Amir Habibullah refused, since he himself and the Afghans were dependent on Sayyid Mir Fazlullah.Khwajagan Naqshband, by Mir Asadullah Sadat, chapter 8Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis LahorinTazkare Khanwade Hazrat ishaan, Edarat Talimat naqshbandiyya, by Muhammad Yasin Qasvari, p. 312

Private life and legacy

Dakik Family

In honor of Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha´s ancestor Hazrat Ishaan, Dakik Family also known as the House of Hazrat Ishaan are continuing his legacy. The Dakik Family are biological descendants of Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha whose granddaughter HRH Princess Sayyida Rahima Dakik is the family´s matriarch. She married with Prince Abdul Khalek Khan of the Telai cadet branch of the Afghan Royal Family, Afghanistan´s father of Physics, acting as Royal Afghan UN Ambassador. Prince Abdul Khalek Khan was a grandson of HRH Field Marshal Prince Abdul Aziz Khan Telai son of Emir Sultan Mohammed Khan Telai, who preceded his grand-nephew HM King Nadir Shah as Minister of War under HM King Amanullah Khan´s cabinett. Prince Abdul Khalek’s younger uncle HRH Field Marshal Prince Amir Muhammad Khan Telai proclaimed himself Shah in Exile contesting his cousin Nadir Shah’s rule with British-Indian support.Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore), p. 65

List of descendants

Sayyid Mir Fazlullah had two wives and two sons:Tazkare Khwanadane Hazrat Eshan(genealogy of the family of Hazrat Eshan)(by author and investigator:Muhammad Yasin Qasvari Naqshbandi company:Edara Talimat Naqshbandiyya Lahore)p.281Khtame Ziarate Sharife hazrat eshan Bukhari(written and investigated by Mian Ahmad Bader Akhlaq(BSC)) printed the second time in 1988 Writer and inspector Mian Muhammad Hasan Akhlaq(M.Km) 1988 company: Koperatis Lahorin

See also

• Muhammad
• fourteen infallibles
• Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Sayyid Ali Akbar
• Bahauddin Naqshband
• Hazrat Ishaan
• Ziyarat Naqshband Saheb
• Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband
• Sayyid Mir Jan
• Sayyid Mahmud Agha

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