Khawaja Muhammad Masum

Khawāja
Muḥammad Maʿṣūm ibn Ahmad
al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī
محمد معصوم بن أحمد
TitleMaʿṣūm-i Thānī
Personal life
Born26 May 1599
Died16 August 1668(1668-08-16) (aged 69)
Sirhind, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire
Children12
EraMughal India
RegionIndian sub-continent
Main interest(s)Islamic Law, Islamic philosophy
Notable idea(s)Evolution of Islamic philosophy Application of Islamic law
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
TariqaNaqshbandi-Mujaddidi
CreedMaturidi
Muslim leader
PredecessorAhmad Sirhindi
SuccessorKhawaja Muhammad Saif ad-Dīn
Influenced
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Muḥammad Maʿṣūm
محمد معصوم
Patronymic (Nasab)Ahmad
أحمد
Epithet (Laqab)Khawāja
خواجة
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī
الفاروقي السرهندي

Khawāja Muḥammad Maʿṣūm (Urdu/Persian: خواجہ محمد معصوم ;1599–1668), also known as Maʿṣūm-i Thānī (“the Second Maʿṣūm”), was an Indian Naqshbandī-Mujaddidī Sufi master, Islamic scholar and the son and principal successor of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), the founder of the Mujaddidi branch of the Naqshbandi order. He is widely revered in South Asian Islamic history as the Urwat-ul-Wuthqa (The Unbreakable Bond/Rope of Allah) and the Qayyum-i-Thani (The Second Qayyum).