Daud Bandagi Kirmani

Early 17th century Miniature Painting of Daud Bandagi

Syed Muhammad Ibrahim bin Syed Fatehullah Kirmani 1513-1575C.E. (AH 919–982), more popularly known as Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani was a 16th-century saint of the Qadiri order.^[1]

His mausoleum

Shrine of Daud Bandagi Kirmani

His mausoleum in Shergarh, Punjab, was completed in 1580 CE. The interior of the octagonal shrine is decorated with intricate floral and geometric frescoes. On each of the eight interior lower alcoves are Persian couplets by Shah Abul Muali extolling Daud. The grave is in an enclosure in the center of the shrine with the graves of six of his lineal descendants on either side. The exterior of the shrine has panels of intricate stucco tracery on all sides. The shrine, is under the care of the Auqaf Department and the Archeology Department of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan, which conducted extensive restoration work in the 1980s, mainly on the preservation of the frescoes.^[2][3]

Gallery

Further reading

• ‘Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh’, Vol II and III, by Abdul Qadir bin Mulik Shah Al-Badaoni (Translated into English by R.A Ranking in 1894).
• ‘Tazkara’ by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
• ‘Maqamat-e-Daudi’ by Abul Baqi Bin Jan Mohammad, original in Persian circa AD 1646. (Translated into Urdu by Dr. Khwaja Hameed Yazdani. Publisher S.M Mohsin).
• 'Akhbaar-Ul-Akhiyaar' by Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi. ( Urdu translation by Professor Ghulam Rasool Mehr). Maktaba Usmania. Hyderabad.A.P. India.
• 'Safinat-ul-Auliya' by Dara Shikoh.

References

1. Abd Al-Qadir Badaoni (1898). "Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh Vol I". Asiatic Society of Bengal.
2. Khalid, Haroon (2015-11-08). "The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
3. Khalid, Haroon (2017-12-22). "The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-07-28.

External links

• Article on Shergarh: [1]^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh can be downloaded from: [2]
• Shergarh on the map: [3]