Data Ganj Bakhsh

Data Ganj Bakhsh In Abu’l Hasan al Hujwiri, a native of Hujwir near Ghazni in Afghanistan, was forced to cross the Indus as a captive of the invading Turkish army. He settled in Lahore and wrote a book in Persian called the Kashf- ul-Mahjub (Unveiling of the Veiled) to explain the meaning of tasawwuf , and those who practised it, that is, the sufi. Hujwiri died in and was buried in Lahore. The grandson of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni constructed a tomb over his grave, and this tomb-shrine became a site of pilgrimage for his devotees, especially on his death anniversary. Even today Hujwiri is revered as Data Ganj Bakhsh or “Giver who bestows treasures” and his mausoleum is called Data Darbar or “Court of the Giver”. Fig. . A seventeenth-century painting of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya and his disciple Amir Khusrau Ü Describe how the artist differentiates between the Shaikh and his disciple.