Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Bhakti Sufi Traditions

Question:

Match List-I with List-II

List-I (Different Sufi Terms)
List II (Their meanings)
(A) Sama  (I) Pilgrimage
(B) Zikr  (II) Hospice
(C) Khanqah  (III) Audition
(D) Ziyarat  (IV) Reciting the divine names

 Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)- (IV), (B)- (III), (C)- (II), (D)- (I)

(A)- (III), (B)- (IV), (C)- (II), (D)- (I)

(A)- (I), (B)- (II), (C)- (III), (D)- (IV)

(A)- (II), (B)- (III), (C)- (I), (D)- (IV)

Correct Answer:

(A)- (III), (B)- (IV), (C)- (II), (D)- (I)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 -(A)- (III), (B)- (IV), (C)- (II), (D)- (I)

The correct match is:

List-I (Different Sufi Terms)
List II (Their meanings)
(A) Sama  (III) Audition
(B) Zikr  (IV) Reciting the divine names
(C) Khanqah  (II) Hospice
(D) Ziyarat  (I) Pilgrimage

Also part of ziyarat (pilgrimage) is the use of music and dance including mystical chants performed by specially trained musicians or qawwals to evoke divine ecstasy. The Sufis remember God either by reciting the zikr (the Divine Names) or evoking His Presence through sama‘ (literally, “audition”) or performance of mystical music. Sama‘ was integral to the Chishtis, and exemplified interaction with indigenous devotional traditions.

By the eleventh century, Sufism evolved into a well-developed movement with a body of literature on Quranic studies and sufi practices. Institutionally, the sufis began to organise communities around the hospice or khanqah (Persian) controlled by a teaching master known as shaikh (in Arabic), pir or murshid (in Persian).