Sayyid Mahmud Agha


Sayyid Mahmud Agha was a Sufi saint and direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad. He was the brother of Sayyid Mir Jan.

Ancestry

Sayyid Mahmud Agha ia a Sayyid, both maternally and paternally. Among his paternal ancestors are seven of the Twelve Imams, and among his maternal ancestors were eleven of the Twelve Imams and Sayyid Bahauddin Naqshband, Sayyid Alauddin Atar, and Khwaja Khawand Mahmud also. After the Battle of Karbala, the Ahl al-Bayt went back to Medina. From there Musa al Kazim was forced to go to Iraq. The Musavis, i.e. the descendants of Musa al Kadhim, settled to Persia. One of them was Khwaja Sayyid Mir Ismail Muhammad Hakim, father of Khwaja Sayyid Mir Latif, an ancestor of Hazrat Sayyid Mahmud Agha. The descendants of Sayyid Mir Latif immigrated to Bokhara and after that to Kabul, where Sayyid Mahmud Agha was born. Sayyid Mahmud Aghas maternal ancestors were Askari Sayyids, i.e. descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari, through his son Sayyid Ali Akbar, whose existence was hidden, because of political conflicts. Sayyid Ali Akbars descendants also migrated to Bokhara, where the prominent Sufi saint Bahauddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born. A descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband after 7 generations was Hazrat Ishaan, whose descendants later immigrated to variable regions of South Asia, like Khorasan, today known as Afghanistan in order to spread the Ishaqiyya Naqshbandiyya branch´s teachings.

Lineage

Sayyid Mahmud Agha Shah Saheb died in Lahore and is buried on the left of the future grave of Sayyid Mir Jan. In his mausoleum in Begampura, Lahore. His death anniversary is commemorated with short prayers called Zikr. It is known as the day, in which a Wali died in deep love.
He is known for his unlimited love and loyalty to his older brother and master Sayyid Mir Jan. He reportedly resembled prophet Muhammad.

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