Bahauddin Nakshband complex, Naqshbandi sect museum

          Bahauddin Nakshband complex


3rd of June.

The last day of our practice🥲
One of the seven saints of Bukhara.
Our guides today were Diana and Shahina. Although Diana was in Bukhara for the first time, she managed to convey all the information to the students. Shahina, like all locals, visited this place with her parents and relatives. she told us the legends and prehistory of this saint.

Bahaudin was born into the family of a craftsman in the village of Kasri-i-Hinduvan, which was one farsakh from Bukhara. He spent almost his entire life in Bukhara or not far from it.

Performed Hajj twice. The nickname Naqshband from Tajik means "applying a pattern." He got his interest in Sufism from his grandfather. His first teacher was Sheikh Muhammad Baba Samasi, who died in 1340. He sent him to Sheikh Amir Kulal, who initiated him into the society of Khojagan dervishes. Bahauddin received spiritual initiation (ruhaniya) from Abdul-Khalik Gijduvani, whom he saw in a dream and who actually sent him to Kulal.

Bahauddin Nakshband died in March 1389 and was buried in his native village of Kasri-Arifon.

After his death, Nakshband was recognized as a saint, as well as the patron saint of Bukhara, in the vicinity of which he spent his entire life. A mausoleum was built over his grave in 1544, which became a place of pilgrimage for Central Asian Muslims.

He left no written works.

His biography is practically unknown, because he forbade his students to write down his deeds, and most of the writings appeared after his death. The treatise Anis at-Taibin, which was written by Salahaddin Muhammad Bukhari (d. 1383), is devoted more to questions of spirituality and morality.
Bahauddin was a supporter of simplicity and unpretentiousness up to asceticism, and rejected rituals and ostentatious piety. He formulated 11 rules of meditation (mushahid). Naqshband spread "silent dhikr" with a specific breathing technique. At the same time, he had a negative attitude towards ostentatious forty-day fasts, vagrancy, public zeal (sama) with music and dancing and loud dhikr, considered the principle of silsil al-barak, when grace (barakat) is transferred to the sheikhs personally through the line of transmission from the founder, to be useless. According to him, the barakah is bestowed directly by God, but not from the sheikh or patron.

His principles were: spiritual purity, renunciation of luxury and money-grubbing, unpretentiousness, renunciation of contacts with the authorities, seclusion in the monastery and in a narrow circle. At the same time, the Sufi must strictly follow the Sunnah and fulfill all the prescriptions of the Shariah.

                              Naqshbandi sect

Nakshbandi is a major Sunni order of Sufism. Its name comes from Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari. Naqshbandi masters trace their lineage to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr, the first Caliph of Sunni Islam.

the symbolic emblem of the
Nakshbandi Sufi Sect

The Naqshbandi order owes much of its insight to Yusuf Hamdani and Abdul Khaliq Gajadvani in the 12th century, the latter of whom is considered the organizer of the practices and is responsible for emphasizing the purely silent invocation. It was later associated with Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari in the 14th century, hence the name of the order. The name can be interpreted as "engraver (of hearts)", "pattern maker", "pattern converter", "image maker", or "associated with image maker". This path is sometimes called the "sublime Sufi path" and the "golden chain path".

the Golden Chain of the Nakshbandi sect

The name of the path has changed over the years. As for Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he was originally called "as-Siddiqiya"; between the times of Bayezid al-Bistami and Abdul Khaliq al-Guzhdavani "at-Tayfuriya"; from the time of Abdul Khaliq al-Guzhdavani to Shah Naqshband "Khwajagan" or "Khoja"; from the time of Shah Naqshbandiyya and on "an-Naqshbandiyya".

Subsequently, a branch or sub-order name was added. From Ubeydullah Ahrar to Imam Rabbani the path was called "Naqshbandiya-akhraria"; from Imam Rabbani to Shamsuddin Mazhar "Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddadiyya"; from Shamsuddin Mazhar to Khalid al-Baghdadi "Naqshbandi-Mazhariya"; from Mawlana Khalid and further "Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiya"; "Naqshbandiya-Mustafvi" (Khalidi) and so on.

fayzulla khojayev house museum

                   fayzulla khojayev house museum

2nd of June.

The house consists of two parts: the male part and the female part. In addition, there are premises for household needs, a large living room "mekhmonkhon", small living rooms, balconies. Each room is decorated with wood carvings, antiques, exclusive furniture, rare decor. In many rooms you can see expensive dishes of those years, household items, clothes, painted vases and many other luxury items.

Fayzulla Khodzhaev (1896-1938) did not inherit an entrepreneurial spirit from his father, he was a statesman, promoted the ideas of Jadidism, and later headed the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic. In 1937 he was arrested in Tashkent in a high-profile case, in 1938 he was sentenced to death and shot in Moscow. In 1965 he was fully rehabilitated.

The house-museum of Fayzulla Khodzhayev is located in the center of Bukhara. Its owner was first Ubaydullo Khoja Kasym Khodjaev – a famous merchant, and then the house passed to his son-heir Fayzulla Khodjaev. The house was purchased in the late 80s of the XIX century, it was a large plot with an area of three hectares. On this square, the merchant built several houses, counting on his large family.

Today in the house-museum you can see echoes of the former heyday of the Bukhara emirate, several expositions telling about the life of the father and son of the Khojaevs. Among the valuable exhibits of the museum, one can note porcelain dishes, Uzbek musical instruments, elegant clothes of Bukharians. Visiting the extraordinary house-museum, you will be pleasantly surprised by the ethnographic exhibitions, magnificent decoration and examples of the luxurious life of Bukhara.

al Bukhari Memorial Museum

                          al Bukhari Memorial

1st of June.
Children Protection Day🥳
But we are in the memorial museum of al Bukhari which is located in the park😁😁

Our beautiful guide Aziza told us about the origin of this hadith scholar. His museum is in Bukhara but his burial place is in Samarkand. The museum itself was built in the shape of a crescent and consists of two floors. On the first upper floor there are instruments and sources of literature and art of that time.

And on the second lower floor there are things and accessories of the imam: clothes, rosaries, shoes, books and most importantly there is his ashes that were brought from his own grave.

His full name is Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizbah al-Jufi al-Bukhari. He was born on Friday, Shawwal 13, 194 AH (July 20, 810) in Bukhara. Imam al-Bukhari was born into a family of immigrants from Persia; ancestors were Zoroastrians; great-grandfather (al-Mughira) converted to Islam "from the hands" of the ruler of Bukhara, Yaman al-Jufi Bukhari. His father, Isma'il, was a companion of Malik ibn Anas and a very learned man; studied hadith from scholars such as Mubarak. He died when Muhammad was still a child, and some of his hadith books were handed down to his son.

At the age of 7, he memorized the entire Quran, and at the age of 10, he knew several thousand hadiths by heart. In Bukhara, he studied hadith from such scholars as Muhammad ibn Salam al-Bikendi and Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Musnadi. He attracted attention when he was eleven years old when he corrected some of the mistakes made by his teacher Dahili while reciting hadith.

Imam al-Bukhari often fell victim to confusion and conspiracies. Because of this, he was expelled from Bukhara four times. The first time he was expelled in the early period was for issuing a fatwa, according to which the adoption relationship is valid even if you drink goat's or mutton's milk. There are many opinions about the reliability of this fact. The second time he was expelled from Nishapur because he claimed that faith (iman) was not created. For the third time at one of the meetings of the imam, someone asked him whether the Speech of Allah was created or not. Imam al-Bukhari at first tried to avoid a direct answer, but the questioner insisted on his own, and as a result, the imam said: "The speech of Allah is not created, but our reading of it is created." And the people did not fully understand Imam al-Bukhari and accused the Imam of introducing an "innovation". From Nishapur he went to Merv, and then from Merv he moved to Bukhara.

Although Bukhari freely passed on what he knew to anyone who wanted to learn from him, he stayed away from statesmen and considered visiting their palaces an act degrading to science. Once the emir of Bukhara, Khalid Zuhri, asked him to teach his children, but the imam refused, and the emir persuaded some people, and they began to speak ill of the imam's beliefs. This forced him to leave Bukhara for the fourth time and go to relatives in the city of Khartang (near Samarkand). In this city, the imam died in 870 at the age of 60.