Panj peer explained

Panj Peer (or Panj Pir), meaning the Five Great Saints in Persian, used to be accompanied together in their lifetime as follows:

• Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (1142  - 1236) also known as 'Gharib Nawaz' (Ajmer, Rajasthan, India)^{[1] [2]}
• Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 3 April 1325), Delhi
• Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173  - 1235), of Mehrauli, Delhi^{[1] [2]}
• Sheikh Baba Farid Ganjshakar (1179  - 1266) (Pakpattan, Punjab)^[2]
• Baha'ud din Zakariya (1182  - 1268) (Multan, Punjab)^[2]
• Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177  - 1274) (Sehwan, Sindh)^[3]

Above Sufi saints are mentioned in the great love-epic of the Sufi poet Sayyid Waris Shah "Heer Ranjha", which opens with an invocation to these holy sages.

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.