Quiz · Learning and Go-Betweens
A Night in a Sufi Lodge: Travelers, Dervishes and the Road
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Watch or rewatch the film: A Night in a Sufi Lodge: Travelers, Dervishes and the RoadQuestion 1 of 2Nizamuddin Auliya ran a lodge near Delhi. How did he treat the hungry, and how did he treat sultans?
At his lodge near Delhi, people of every sort were fed. He kept away from sultans and nobles, in the quieter Chishti style.
Source: EP49 claims T20-113, T20-114 (Wikipedia, Nizamuddin Auliya); narrated at 09:59 of 12:43 (78%)
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The answer: Fed people of every sort; kept away from sultans
At his lodge near Delhi, people of every sort were fed. He kept away from sultans and nobles, in the quieter Chishti style.
Source: EP49 claims T20-113, T20-114 (Wikipedia, Nizamuddin Auliya); narrated at 09:59 of 12:43 (78%)
Question 2 of 2When the Mongols took his city in 1221, what did the Sufi shaykh Najm al-Din Kubra do?
Kubra, founder of the Kubrawiyya order, refused to leave and died when the city fell. His pupils carried his teaching on in Central Asia and Persia.
Source: EP49 claim T20-122 (Wikipedia, Najmuddin Kubra; Kubrawiya); narrated at 10:50 of 12:43 (85%)
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The answer: Refused to leave, and died there
Kubra, founder of the Kubrawiyya order, refused to leave and died when the city fell. His pupils carried his teaching on in Central Asia and Persia.
Source: EP49 claim T20-122 (Wikipedia, Najmuddin Kubra; Kubrawiya); narrated at 10:50 of 12:43 (85%)
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