Qalandar (title)

Qalandar in Sufism is used as a title for some Sufi saints.^[1] Some people for whom the title is used are Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, Shams Ali Qalandar, Rabia Basri, Nathar tabre Aalam qalandar, Baba Fakruddin qalandar and Qalandar Baba Auliya. Makhdom Mehmood Mastwar Qalander **Qalandar Ishfaq (Qalandarm Mastam) Muree* ^[2]

A Qalandar is a person who has excelled in seeing things and advances stage by stage into the Being. He even rises above the Administrative System and witnesses the core of Oneness in detail and after enjoying the Unity of the Being returns without losing his grades and then reaches back into his humanly status, so much so that his rise and fall becomes one and the same thing for him.. He witnesses part in the whole and sees the whole in the part and, then, after detaching himself from all this, plunges into a state of ecstasy.

The status of a qalandar is even higher than the loved ones because duality remains there even in that state, i.e. one is the loved one and the other is the loving. In qalanderiyat there is no duality.^[3]

Qalandar is a title given to a saint who is at a very high level of spirituality. They are different from other saints and have very strong feelings of love for God's creation. Qalandars, among the saints, are those persons who may enjoy freedom from the ties and bounds of time and space. It is claimed that all living things are given in their charge and command, every part of the universe may be at their disposal but these holy people are far above temptation, greed or lust. When people request them they feel duty-bound to listen and rectify the cause of miseries of people because they have been appointed by God for this very purpose.

Qalandars have always spread the message of love and humanity, they are always in the state of ecstasy and their actions are with the will of God. They are Wali Allah. Among contemporary people who hold the title of qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar^[4] of Punjab, Pakistan, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali, Baba Fakruddin, and Qalander Baba Auliya,.

In One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherezade recounts the tales of the three Calendars (alternate spelling).

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Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Hazrat Sayyid Usman Marwandi, popularly known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, was a Sufi saint and poet of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar

Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Panipati, renowned as Bu Ali Qalandar, born in Panipat, Haryana, India, was a Qalandar and Sufi saint of the Owaisī Order, who lived and taught in India. His shrine or dargah (mausoleum) is at Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Dargah, Panipat, which is a place of pilgrimage.

Shams Ali Qalandar

Shams Ali Qalandar

Sayeen Faqeer Muhammad Shams Ali Qalandar was a great Sufi saint, Faqir and qalandar, he belonged to Silsilah Owaisi Qadiriyya Noshahi, from Punjab, Pakistan. He preached Islamic teachings and enlightened the path of spirituality/Tasawuf with his guidance for the people.

Qalandar Baba Auliya

Qalandar Baba Auliya

Qalandar Baba Auliya is the title of the Sufi Scholar and Mystic Muhammad Azeem Barkhiyya, the founder of the Azeemia order of Sufis. He was given the honorifics Abdal-i-Haq and Hasn-e-Ukhra.

Baba Fakruddin

Baba Fakruddin

Syed Baba Fakhr al-Din Hasani ul Hussaini commonly known as Baba Fakhruddin was a Persian Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order from present-day Eastern Iran.

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition, which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.