Khwaja Hasan Nizami Explained

Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Other Names:	Hasan Nizami
Birth Name:	Hasan Nizami
Birth Date:	6 January 1878
Birth Place:	Delhi, India
Death Place:	New Delhi, India
Known:	Poetry, Sufi tariqa
Occupation:	Writer
Khawaja
Successor:	Khwaja Hasan Sani Nizami
Children:	Khwaja Hasan Sani Nizami

Khwaja Hasan Nizami (6 January 1878-31 July 1955) was an Indian Sufi saint and a known Urdu essayist and humorist and satirist who wrote many essays for the Mukhzun Akhbar magazine.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} He wrote more than 60 books including the incidents of Indian Rebellion of 1857, while Mulla Wahidi writes that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his credit.^{[5] [6]} Being a Sufi he had many disciples and it appeared in his literature.

His maternal grandfather Ghulam Hasan Chisti was a friend and spiritual advisor to Bahadur Shah Zafar and frequently visited the Red Fort.^[7] His mother used to tell him the stories of the Mughal family she had heard from her father. He had himself met Kulsum Zamani Begum, Zafar's daughter. He has narrated the tragic stories of Mirza Nasir-ul-Mulk, Zafar's grandson, who eventually became a servant of a British family and later crawled on his knees and begged in Bazar Chitli Kabr. Mirza Kamar Sultan, another of Zafar's grandson also used to beg at the Jama Masjid.

Works

Nizami "was of Nizamuddin Auliya's known silsilã, and widely honoured in the Muslim world."^[8]

Literary works

Khwaja wrote many books including:^{[9] [10]}

• Fãtami Dãwat-i-Islam (1920)^[8]
• Gadar ki Subah aur Sham
• Tareekh e Firaun
• Krishan Beeti
• Madar e Hamdard
• Sair e Delhi
• Government Aur Khilafat
• Ghalib's Diary
• Bahaddur Shah zafar's diary (publisher)^[11]
• Begumat Kay Ansoo: Dehli Kay Afsanay (also translated as Tears of the Begums, Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857, 2022^[12])
• Ap Biti (autobiography)^[13]

Commemoration of Muharram

As most of the Muslims had migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947 AD, Delhi had no Shia orator to address the Majlis during Muharram. At this crucial juncture, Khwaja Hasan Nizami filled the gap by addressing Majlis at Panja Shareef. He was also supported by Maulana Ahmad Saeed, Maulana Zubair Qureshi   and Justice Vyas Dev Mishra in his endeavor to ensure sustainability of commemoration of Muharram against odds. Despite Khawaja Hasan Nizami Being part of the Ahl us Sannah wal Jammah.

Dr Majid Deobandi had written a PhD thesis on Khwaja Hasan Nizami.^[14]

External links

• Marcia Hermansen, Professor at Loyola University Chicago has compiled a bibliography of Khwaja Hasan Nizami's Publications He also wrote Stories like Beghmat ke Ansuo And Thele Wala ShehzaDa.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ernst. C.. Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. Lawrence. B.. 30 April 2016 . Springer. 978-1-137-09581-7. en.
2. Book: By Amaresh Datta. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2. 1988. 9788126011940.
3. Book: Ilmi Encyclopaedia of General Knowledge. 1979.
4. Book: Tully, Mark. India In Slow Motion. 2017-11-22. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. 978-93-5118-097-5. en.
5. Naqvi, 1978.
6. News: Safvi. Khwaja Hasan Nizami & Rana . How Bahadur Shah Zafar's daughter had to flee from Delhi after he lost his empire . 4 July 2020 . The Scroll.
7. Mughlon Ke Antim Din, Khwaja Hasan Nizami, Sahitya Mandal, 1933, p. 12
8. Book: Muslim Separatism, Causes and Consequences . Sita Ram . Goel . Voice of India, New Delhi (also known as Voice of Dharma) . 978-8185990262 . 1995 . Appendix, Islamic Manifesto for India . http://voiceofdharma.org/books/muslimsep/app.htm.
9. Book: Dehalvi, Khawaja Hasan Nizami . Tareekh-E-Firon . 2004 . Hafiz Jamil Printers . ur.
10. Book: City of My Heart: Four Accounts of Love, Loss and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century Delhi . 18 September 2018 . Hachette India . 978-93-5195-259-6 . en.
11. News: 3 May 2007 . A chronicler of 1857 par excellence. 1 July 2020. Hindustan Times . en.
12. https://books.google.com/books?id=XO14EAAAQBAJ Tears of the Begums, Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857, By Khwaja Hasan Nizami, trans. Rana safvi, 2022
13. Marcia Hermansen, Sufi Autobiography in the 20th Century: Worldly and Spiritual Journeys of Khwaja Hasan Nizami” in Tales of God’s Friends: Sufi Hagiography ed. John Renard (Berkeley: University of California, 2009), 286-300.
14. Web site: Dr. Majid Deobandi. 2020-07-04. www.majiddeobandi.in.