Haji Bektash Veli and his shrine हाजी बेक्ताश حاجی بکتاش ویلی کی سوانح عمری اور مزار کی تاریخ

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Biography of Haji Bektash Veli and the history of his shrine

Dekhti Aankhooon aur sountay kaanoon ko Asslamoalaikum, sisters, brothers friends and elders, in informative series videos of Islamic ascolars, sufisaints, cultural heritages, islamic philosophys, islamic mysticisms and historical figures. today we are describing biography of and the history of his shrine.

Haji Bektash Veli was an Islamic scholar, mystic, saint, sayyid, and philosopher from Khorasan who lived and taught in Anatolia. His original name was Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Ibr?him ?t?. He is also referred to as the "Sultan of Hearts" and the "Dervish of the Dervishes".

He is revered among Alevis for an Islamic understanding that is esoteric, rational and humanistic. Alevi and Bektashi Muslims believe the path of Bektash is the path of Haqq-Muhammad-Ali since they were the source of Bektash's teachings. He was one of the many figures who flourished in the Sultanate of Rum and had an important influence on the culture of Anatolian nomads of Asia Minor.

Bektash is generally believed to be of Iranian or Turkic origin. Bektash belonged to a group of Khorasani migrants in Anatolia who had left their homeland during the Mongol conquests. According to the Vilâyet-Nâme, Bektash was the son of Sayyed Muhammad ibn Musa, a great-grandson of Musa al-Kazim; this is impossible, given the fact that Bektash lived in the 7th/13th century. Genealogies encountered in later sources and designed to fill the obvious gap in time are all questionable and may well have been inspired by a wish—analogous to that of the fabricators of the Safavid genealogy—to give Bektash, as the eponym of a nominally Shia order, Imami descent.

According to "The history of A??kpa?azade" (A??kpa?azade Tarihi), written by one of the grandsons of "A??k Pasha" who was the son of "Muhlis Pa?a" (Muhlees P?sh?) who was the son of renowned B?b? Eliy?s al-Khor?s?n?, "Sayyeed Muhammad ibn Sayyeed Ebr?heem ?t?" had come to Sivas, Anatolia from Khorasan with his brother "Mente?" (Mantash) to become affiliated with the tariqat of B?b? Eliy?s al-Khor?s?n?. On the other hand, the famous reference book of Bekta?i order, Val?yat-N?ma-i H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?, claims that "Bektash" was the murshid of B?b? (B?b? Eliy?s al-Khor?s?n?).

The name attributed to him by his followers can be translated as "The Pilgrim Saint Bektash." The Haji title implies that he had made the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina to perform Hajj. He is the eponym of the Bektashi Sufi order and is considered one of the principal teachers of Alevism. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the "center and source of his teachings" was ?Al? ibn Ab? ??lib, whom Alevis believe to be the righteous successor of Muhammad while also "acknowledging the twelve Shia Imams" and "holding Jafar as-Sadiq in high esteem".[11] Despite his Shia belief and his unorthodox teachings, he is considered a renowned figure in the history and culture of both the Ottoman Empire and the modern nation-state of Turkey. On the other hand, Ibn Khallikan reports that Sh?'ite tendencies belonged not to him but rather to his murids, who took refuge in his tekke at Suluca Kara Oyuk in K?r?ehir after the Babai Revolt.

Bektash was born in Nishapur. It is reported in some Bektashi legends that Bektash was a follower and the representative of Hoja Ahmad Yasavi, a Sufi mystic from Central Asia who had great influence on the Turkic nomads of the steppes. This claim is rejected by modern scholars,[which?] since Ahmad Yasawi lived nearly one hundred years before Haji Bektash. Not much is known about him, his origins are shrouded in mystery and much of his biography is based on legends.

When the Janissary corps were abolished in 1826 by Sultan Mahmud II the Bektashis suffered the same fate. The babas of the tekkes and their dervishes were banished to staunchly Sunni villages and towns, and their tekkes were closed or handed over to Sunni Sufi orders (mostly Naqshbandi; for example, the Goztepe Tekke in Istanbul was given to the Naqshbandis during this period).

Although the Bektashi order regained many of its lost tekkes during the Tanzimat period, they, along with all other Sufi orders, were banned in Turkey in 1925 as a result of the country's secularization policies and all Bektashi tekkes were closed once more along with all others.

The main Bektashi tekke is in the town of Hac?bekta? in Central Anatolia, known as Hajibektash complex. It is currently open as a museum and his resting place is still visited by both Sunni and Alevi Muslims. Large festivals are held there every August. Also the Göztepe and Shahkulu tekkes in Istanbul are now used as meeting places for Alevis. The biggest Bektashi tekke is said to be in Albania. There is also a Bektashi tekke in Taylor, Michigan, US, founded by Baba Rexheb, who was a famous Bektashi writer on Islamic mysticism and Bektashism

With this, we seek your permission until tomorrow, tomorrow we will describe the biography of the Ischolar Abu Said ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri and the history of his maqbara. Allah Hafiz.

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