Sayyid Mir Jan

Sayyid Mir Jan was a son of Sayyid Mir Hasan. Both his brothers chief justice Khwaja Sayyid Mir Fazlullah and Sayyid Mir Mahmud are regarded as saints as well. His younger brother Sayyid Mahmud Agha was his disciple, becoming a qutb one rank below Sayyid Mir Jan. Other siblings included two brothers named Sayyid Mir Azimullah and Khwaja Sayyid Mir Taqiqullah, and five sisters. Sayyid Mir Jan married his wife in Medinah, and had 2 sons. His wife and his sons passed away during a natural disaster.[4]

The lineage of Hazrat Sayyid Mir Jan's family is the following:[13]

• 1 Muhammad
• 2 Ali and Fatima Al Zahra
• 3 Imam Hussain Shaheede Reza
• 4 Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin
• 5 Imam Muhammad al Baqir
• 6 Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq
• 7 Imam Musa al Kazim
• 8 Abu Qasim Sayyid Mir Hamza
• 9 Sayyid Mir Qasim
• 10 Sayyid Mir Ahmad
• 11 Sayyid Mir Muhammad
• 12 Ismail Muhammad Hakim
• 13 Sayyid Mir Latif
• 14 Sayyid Mir Muhammad
• 15 Sayyid Mir Kulal
• 16 Sayyid Mir Ahmad
• 17 Sayyid Mir Hashim
• 18 Sayyid Mir Mustaali
• 19 Sayyid Mir Dost Ali
• 20 Sayyid Mir Muhammad Latif
• 21 Sayyid Mir Abdullah
• 22 Sayyid Mir Muhammad Shamah
• 23 Sayyid Mir Latifullah
• 24 Sayyid Mir Ruhollah
• 25 Sayyid Mir Baitullah
• 26 Sayyid Mir Nimatullah
• 27 Sayyid Mir Azimullah
• 28 Sayyid Mir Muhammad Hasan
• 29 Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha, brother of Hazrat Khwaja Sayyid Mir Jan
• 30 Sayyid Mir Muhammad Jan
• 31 Sayyida Bibi Rahima Sadat
• 32 Mir Sayyid Sultan Masood Dakik}}
• 33 Sayyid Mir Raphael Dakik, Sayyid Mir Matin Dakik, Sayyid Mir Hamid Dakik

Sayyid mir Jan was introduced in Tasawuf in the age of 5 years. His father Sayyid Mir Hasan was also a high ranking saint, who used to teach his sons about Islam and Sufism. Sayyid Mir Jan was educated in Kabul and became a professor of Islamic theology. Later he has built his own university in Lahore. Sayyid Mir Jan and his brother Sayyid Mahmud also wrote poems.[4][14]

After his education in Kabul, Sayyid Mir Jan went on a spiritual journey and became the successor to many Sufi Saints who had trained him in Sufism. Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb became khalifa(master) of 7 Sufi tariqats, including tariqats of the Naqshbandi, Qadiriyya, Chishtiyya, Suhrawardiyya, Qalandariyya, Kubrawiyya, and Madariyya orders. He stayed in Medina for a decade to be trained by one of his masters, and while there married a local woman. Later, he traveled to Lahore to the tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Khawand Mahmud, also known as Hazrat Ishaan. Hazrat Ishaan was a Sufi saint from Bukhara, whose wilayat was also in Lahore. Hazrat Ishaan's successors included his two sons Moinuddin Naqshband in Srinagar, Kashmir and Bahauddin in Lahore and their descendants until the late 18th century, by which time the lineage was lost.[15] According to a legend, Hazrat Ishaan made prophecies about Sayyid Mir Jan, naming him as his successor to revive his lineage.[14][16]