Ziyarah Sufi: 06/15

First Supper, Nasi Bhukara

Welcome Supper at a Bhukaran Artisan House

Ziyarah of 1st Makam

Makam of Abdul Khalid Gajadwani, 11th the the Naqshbandi Golden Chain (in the city of Gijduvani 50 km) from Bukhara,founder of sufistic branch “Khodjagon”.

Khodja Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani (passed away in 1179) was one of a group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order.Abdul Khaliq was born in the small town of Ghijduvan, near Bukhara. His father had migrated to Central Asia from Malatya, in eastern Anatolia where he had been a prominent faqih. While Abdul Khaliq was studying tafsir in Bukhara he first had an awakening of interest in the path. He received further training at the hands ofYusuf Hamdani, and was the next link in the Naqshbandi silsilafollowing him. Abdul Khaliq bequeathed to subsequent generations of the Naqshbandi silsila a series of principles governing their Sufi practice, concisely formulated in Persian and known collectively as "the Sacred Words" (kalimat-i qudsiya), or the "Rules" or "Secrets" of the Naqshbandi Order.

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Shaykh Abdul Khaliq Al Gajadwani (q)

Makam of Khodja Abd al-Khalik al-Gijduvani 11th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Muhammad Orif Ar Revgari known as hezret Khoja Orif Mohitobon,12^th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain (1165 - 1237). This complex is located in the district of Shofirkon from Bukhara (50-60 km).

Makam of Kodja Orif Ar-Rivgariy (Orif Mohitabon)

He was a Knower whose Inner Truth appeared to him in all its brightness and light. He was a Sun of Knowledge who illuminated the dark sky of his Age. He was called the Light in the Garden of Reality and the Light in the Garden of the Prophet .

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Shaykh Orif Ar-Rivgariy (q)

Makam of Kodja Orif Ar-Rivgariy (Orif Mohitabon). 12^th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy {in the village of Anjirbog. Khodja Said Mir Kulol was one of his most famous pupil's}. He was 13th in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain. He passed away in 1286.

Makam of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy 13th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

With the Imam at the Well near the Makam of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy 13th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy 13th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

He was a Master from whose heart the Water of Knowledge and Wisdom gushed forth. His heart was polished by the Divine Effulgence, making him one of the best of the Chosen Ones, purified from all darkness and misery, and translucent as crystal.

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Shaykh Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy (q)

Makam of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy 13th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Ali Rometani {1191- 1321}, (Khodja Azizon) the famous khaliphet of Khodja Makhmud Anjir Fagnaviy, from the village of Kurgan under the city of Rometan (14th in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain)

Makam of Khodja Ali Rometani 14th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

He was born in the village of Ramitan, two miles from Bukhara. He lived there, and was avid in learning the knowledge of the Divine Law (sharica), until he achieved fame in the Sciences of Traditions (Hadith), Qur’an, Jurisprudenct (Fiqh), and the Exemplary Path of the Prophet (Sunnah). He was a reference (marjac) for anyone asking for legal decisions (fatawa).

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Shaykh Ali ar Ramitani (q)

Makam of Khodja Ali Rometani 14th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Ali Rometani 14th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi (?-1335/36, the famous khaliphet of Khodja Ali Rometani, in the village of Samosin Rometan) 15th in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

He was born in Sammas, a village in the suburbs of Ramitan, three miles from Bukhara. He progressed in his journey by reading from the Sciences of the Qur’an, memorizing the Qur’an and the Prophetic Tradition (hadith), and becoming a great scholar in Jurisprudence.

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Shaykh Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi (q)

Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

With Imam and Caretaker of Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Old well near the Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Mukhammad Boboyi Samosi 15th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Said Mir Kulol (1281-1370, born not far from the village of Sukhor. Famous as spiritual master of Bakhouddin Naksband) 16th to the Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Said Mir Kulol 16th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

At the Well near the Makam of Khodja Said Mir Kulol 16th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Hazrat Bahauddin. He was born in the month of Muharram in 717 AH/ 1317 AD, in the village of Qasr al-Hinduwan (later renamed Qasr al-Arifan) near Bukhara in what is today Uzbekistan. From a young age, he was gifted with spiritual abilities. Hazrat Muhammad Baba as-Samasi, the fifth descendant of Hazrat Yusuf al-Hamadani and a great shaykh in his own right...He was 17th in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain.

Makam of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Hazrat Muhammad Bahauddin Shah Naqshband is a 14th century Central Asian Sufi saint after whom the Naqshbandi order takes its name. The name Naqshband is sometimes understood in connection with the craft of embroidering, and Hazrat Bahauddin is said to have in fact assisted his father in weaving cloaks (kimkha) in Bukhara. More commonly, however, it is taken to refer to the fixing of the divine name of God to the heart by means of dhikr.To the people of Bukhara, whose patron saint he became, he was known posthumoulsy as khwadja-yi bala-gardan ("the averter of disaster"), referring to protective powers bestowed on him during his training period. Elsewhere, especially in Turkey, he is popularly called Shahi Naqshband.

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Maulana Shaykh Bakhouddin Nakshbandi (q)

Makam of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Museum of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Watched Maulana Shaykh Nazim's Eastern World Tour (Uzbekistan) in 2001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876A0mF4jXE

Maulana Shaykh Nazim (Q) doing Ziyarah of Makam Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi in 2001

Makam of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Museum of Khodja Bakhouddin Nakshbandi 17th in Naqshbandi Golden Chain

Makam of Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Bardizbah al-Ju‘fī al-Bukhārī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه الجعفي البخاري‎‎; 19 July 810 – September 870), or Bukhārī (Persian: بخاری‎), commonly referred to as Imam al-Bukhari or Imam Bukhari. He was a Persian Islamic scholar who authored the hadith collectionknown as Sahih al-Bukhari, regarded by Sunni Muslims as one of the most sahih (authentic) of all hadith compilations. He also wrote the books Al-Adab al-Mufrad.

Muhammad ibn Isma`il al-Bukhari al-Ju`fi was born after the Jumu'ah prayer on Friday, 13 Shawwal 194 AH (19 July 810) in the city of Bukhara in Khorasan (in present-day Uzbekistan).His father, Ismail ibn Ibrahim, a scholar of hadith, was a student and associate of Malik ibn Anas. Some Iraqi scholars related hadith narrations from him. In the year 864/250, he settled in Nishapur. It was in Neyshābūr that he met Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. He would be considered his student, and eventually collector and organiser of hadith collection Sahih Muslim which is considered second only to that of al-Bukhari. Political problems led him to move to Khartank, a village near Samarkand where he died in the year 870/256

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Imam al Bukhari (q)