Panj peer explained

Panj peer (or panj pīr), meaning the five saints in Persian, were Islamic saints who overlapped in late 12th and early 13th centuries in northwestern India. They were:

• Mu'in al-Din Chishti (1143  - 1236), Ajmer, Rajasthan,^{[1] [2]} also known as gharīb nawāz'
• Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki (1173  - 1235), Mehrauli, Delhi
• Farid al-Din Ganjshakar (1179  - 1266), Pakpattan, Punjab
• Baha al-Din Zakariya (1182  - 1268), Multan, Punjab
• Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177  - 1274), Sehwan, Sindh^[3]

The above Sufi saints are mentioned (alongside Nizam al-Din Awliya) in the great love-epic of the Sufi poet sayyid Waris Shah, Heer Ranjha, which opens with an invocation to them.

See also

• Panj Pyare

Notes and References

1. News: An afternoon with the saints. Sudarshana Srinivasan. 22 August 2015. The Hindu (newspaper). 3 December 2021.
2. Web site: Sufis and the Spread of Islam. 28 April 2012. 6 August 2014. Story of Pakistan website. 3 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20140806103248/http://storyofpakistan.com/sufis-and-the-spread-of-islam/.
3. News: Saint revered by people of all religions . Masood Lohar. 5 October 2004. Dawn (newspaper). 4 December 2021.