Who established the Chishti sect in India?

Who established the Chishti sect in India? Correct Answer Moinuddin Chishti

Option 1 is the correct answer: The Chisti order in India was established by Moinuddin Chishti.

Chisti order:

• The Chisti order is one of the four major orders of Classical Sufism, that originated from a small town named Chist in Afghanistan
• Khwaja Abu Ishaq Shami founded this sect in 930 CE there.
• Characteristics of Chisti sect:
  • The followers avoid committing anything against as proposed in the Quran.
  • Stay away from rich & corrupt and avoid worldly attractions
  • Avoiding the company of rulers and the elite.
  • Practising music in a way that it helps an individual to submerge into the existence of god.
  • Qawwali is an eminent feature of this sect of Sunni Islam.
• Moinuddin Chisti introduced this order in India at Ajmer, Rajasthan in 12 century CE.

Moinuddin Chisti:

• Moinuddin Chisti was a Sufi saint, born in Iran in 1141.
• Under the influence of Sheikh Ibrahim Qunduzi, he renounced this world to inquire deep into the religious world.
• He also accompanied Utham Haruni (a Chisti Saint) to Islamic pilgrims a became his disciple.
• It is said that he came to India to introduce Chisti sect here after he was directed by Prophet Mohammad to do so in a dream.
• He died at Ajmer in 1236 and his dargah (Ajmer Sharif Dargah) became a famous pilgrim.