Which of the following pairs about the sufi account of 1313 involving a gift of gardens and land is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya - lamented that none of his spiritual masters had engaged in such activity
Option (1) Local ruler - kept his rights over the gardens while sending the deed — Incorrect. The local ruler had made it clear that he was relinquishing all his rights to the gardens and land.
Option (2) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya - lamented that none of his spiritual masters had engaged in such activity — Correct. Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya refused the gift and asked what he had to do with gardens, fields and lands. He added that none of his spiritual masters had engaged in such activity, so holding land went against Chishti practice.
Option (3) Amir Hasan Sijzi - sent the provisions and tools for the maintenance of the gardens — Incorrect. Amir Hasan Sijzi was the author who recorded the scene. The provisions and tools came from the local ruler along with the deed.
Option (4) Shaikh Fariduddin - sent the deed of two gardens and much land to the hospice — Incorrect. Shaikh Fariduddin appears only in the story the Shaikh told later. The deed of two gardens came from a local ruler.
NCERT (2026-27): “7.4 Sufis and the state … “Ü What aspects of the relationship between the sufis and the state do you think are he was relinquishing all his rights to both the gardens and land. The master … had not accepted that gift. Instead, he had lamented: “What have I to” |