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After
his
death,
his
tomb
was
built
by
Firuz
Shah
Tughluq
(r.
1351
-
1388),
the
Sultan
of
Delhi
in
1358,
and
later
two
gateways
were
added
on
either
side
of
mausoleum.
One
of
noted
addition
was
a
mosque
built
by
a
later
Mughal
emperor,
Farrukhsiyar,
in
the
early
18th
century,
and
popular
among
both
Muslims
and
non-Muslims.
A
humble
tomb
of
the
founder
of
Lodhi
dynasty,
Bahlul
Khan
Lodhi
(r.1451-89)
lies
close
to
the
shrine.
Nasiruddin
Chiragh
Dehalvi,
unlike
his
spiritual
master
Nizamuddin
Auliya,
did
not
listen
to
sema,
which
was
considered
un-Islamic
by
a
section
of
the
Muslim
intelligentsia
in
that
period.
He
did
not
however
pass
any
specific
judgement
against
it.
This
is
the
reason
why
even
today,
qawwali
is
not
performed
near
his
shrine
in
Delhi.
Nasiruddin's
descendants
are
to
be
found
far
and
wide
as
a
lot
of
them
moved
down
South
to
Hyderabad.
Nasiruddin
Mahmud
Chiragh
Dehlavi
(or
Chiragh-e-Delhi)was
born
as
Syed
Nasiruddin
Mahmud
AlHassani
around
1274,
at
Ayodhya,
Uttar
Pradesh.Dehlavi's
father,
Syed
Mahmud
Yahya
AlHassani,
who
traded
in
Pashmina,
and
his
grandfather,
Syed
Yahya
Abdul
Latif
AlHassani,
first
migrated
from
Khorasan,
northeastern
Iran,
to
Lahore,
and
thereafter
settled
in
Ayodhya,
in
Awadh.
His
father
died
when
he
was
only
nine
years
of
age
and
he
received
his
early
education
from
Maulana
Abdul
Karim
Sherwani,
and
later
continued
it
with
Maulana
Iftikhar
Uddin
Gilani.
At
the
age
forty,
he
left
Ayodhya
for
Delhi,
where
he
became
the
disciple
of
Khwaja
Nizamuddin
Auliya.
It
was
here
that
Dehlavi
stayed
for
the
rest
of
his
life
as
his
murid
(disciple),and
after
his
death,
became
his
successor.
In
time,
he
also
became
a
known
poet
in
Persian
language.
He
died
in
17
Ramzan
757
Hijri
or
1356
AD,[12]
at
the
age
of
82,
and
is
buried
in
a
part
of
South
Delhi,
India
which
is
known
as
"Chirag
Delhi"
after
him.
