Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri
Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri | |
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সৈয়দ রশীদ আহমদ জৌনপুরি | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 25 December 1889 |
| Died | 5 September 2001 (aged 111) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Resting place | Baitur Rahim Masjid, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Relatives | Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (maternal grandfather) Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (maternal uncle) Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (maternal uncle) Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (maternal cousin) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Movement | Barelvi |
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Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (Bengali: সৈয়দ রশীদ আহমদ জৌনপুরী; 1889–2001) was a Sufi saint, author, scholar of Hadith and Quran, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh. He was influenced by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi and his Barelvi movement.
He also wrote Urdu ghazals, nazm, hamd and naat, his pen name being Fani. As a Sufi master, he was initiated in Qadiriyya, Chishti, Naqshbandi, Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya, Shadhili, Uwaisi, Qalandariyya, Saberiyya and Nizamiyya orders.
His teachings stated that Islam was a unified whole of shariat (exoteric path), tariqa (esoteric path), haqiqat (mystical truth), and marefat (final mystical knowledge), and was incomplete without any one of these. He refused to depend on charity, and lived in Bangladesh almost incognito.