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SSC Selection Post 2022 PYQ — Question 33

SSC Selection Post - Matriculation Level 2022 - 2 Aug 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q33

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Among the following Sufi saints, whose dargah is located at Ajmer?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Moin-ud-din Chishti.

  • The Sufi saint whose dargah is located in Ajmer is Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti. 
  • The Shrine of Mu'in al-Din Chishti is known as the Ajmer Dargah Shareef.
  • He was known reverentially as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz.
  • He was a Persian Islamic scholar and mystic from Sistan, Iran.
  • He eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century.
  • He arrived in the Delhi Sultanate during the reign of the sultan Iltutmish.
  • He promulgated the Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism in India.