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  "ar": "خواجة حسن النظامي",
  "en": "Khwaja Hasan Nizami",
  "ur": "خواجہ حسن نظامی"
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  "ar": "متصوف وأديب أردي هندي (1878–1955)، وُلد في دلهي عند ضريح نظام الدين أولياء وتوفي فيها. من أعلام السلسلة الجشتية النظامية، أدار حلقة للبيعة والإرشاد وكتب مئات المؤلفات في المقالة والفكاهة والتاريخ، ومن أشهرها «بيغمات کے آنسو» في مآسي ثورة 1857، وبعد تقسيم الهند أحيا بنفسه مجالس محرم في دلهي.",
  "en": "Indian Sufi and Urdu writer (1878–1955), born in Delhi at the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya and died there. A figure of the Chishti-Nizami silsila, he kept a circle of initiation and discipleship and wrote hundreds of works of essay, humour and history, among them Begumat Kay Ansoo on the sufferings of 1857; after Partition he personally revived Delhi's Muharram gatherings.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی صوفی اور اردو ادیب (1878ء–1955ء)، دہلی میں نظام الدین اولیاء کی درگاہ پر پیدا ہوئے اور وہیں وفات پائی۔ سلسلہ چشتیہ نظامیہ کے بزرگ تھے، پیری مریدی کا سلسلہ جاری رکھا اور انشا، مزاح اور تاریخ پر سیکڑوں تصانیف چھوڑیں، جن میں «بیگمات کے آنسو» مشہور ہے؛ تقسیم کے بعد دہلی کی مجالسِ محرم انھوں نے خود آباد کیں۔"
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  "latest": 1955.57944379416
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   "edtf": "1878-12-26",
   "hijri": "1296",
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "The English article gives 26 December 1878, which the record follows; the Arabic article, its translation, gives 6 January 1878, and Wikidata gives the year 1873. The Urdu article gives no birth date but places his birth at Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine in Delhi. The year 1878 is common to both article texts and to the lane queue. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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   "edtf": "1955-07-31",
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   "note": "Died 31 July 1955 in Delhi and buried within the enclosure of Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine (Urdu article; the English article and Wikidata agree on the date). The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "Syed Ali Hasan",
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    "value": "سيد علي حسن",
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    "value": "Hasan Nizami",
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    "value": "حسن نظامي",
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   "writer"
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   "edtf": "1878-12-26",
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   "note": "The English article gives 26 December 1878, which the record follows; the Arabic article, its translation, gives 6 January 1878, and Wikidata gives the year 1873. The Urdu article gives no birth date but places his birth at Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine in Delhi. The year 1878 is common to both article texts and to the lane queue. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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   "hijri": "1375",
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   "note": "Died 31 July 1955 in Delhi and buried within the enclosure of Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine (Urdu article; the English article and Wikidata agree on the date). The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "note": "Two independent texts state his personal Sufi affiliation and discipleship, which is the lane's test for a sufi segment. The English text calls him an Indian Sufi saint, says that being a Sufi he had many disciples and that it appeared in his literature, and places him in Nizamuddin Auliya's known silsila. The Urdu text, independently written, calls him a Sufi of the Chishti silsila, states that he maintained the practice of piri-muridi (taking disciples) and that countless people entered his circle of discipleship. A Sunni reading is preserved but not recorded as a segment: the English text states, in its account of his Muharram addresses, that he was part of the Ahl us Sannah wal Jammah — but the Arabic article carrying the same statement is a translation of the English, so that attestation rests on one text family, and the Urdu text does not name a school. No madhhab is named for him in any consulted text.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Khwaja Hasan Nizami' (revision 1382092002), Arabic Wikipedia 'خواجة حسن النظامي' (revision 76789162) and Urdu Wikipedia 'حسن نظامی' (revision 5773698), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q20739148 (item revision 2512561910). The Arabic article is a translation of the English and is counted as the same text family; the Urdu article is independently written. Existence checks by name fragments (nizami, hasan nizami, حسن نظامي), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man; person/karamanli-nizami is a different man. The lane queue gives 1878–1955, which the article texts support against Wikidata's 1873 birth year. The founder's flagged question on this record: the Sunni (Ahl us-Sunnah) reading rests on one text family and is preserved in the faith note only.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خواجة حسن النظامي (وُلد باسم سيد علي حسن؛ 1878–1955) وليّ صوفي هندي وكاتب مقالات بالأردية وفكاهي وساخر معروف، كتب مقالات كثيرة لمجلة «مخزن الأخبار».{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar} وتصفه المقالة الأردية بأنه صوفي من السلسلة الجشتية وأديب أردي، وُلد عند ضريح نظام الدين أولياء في دلهي حيث كان والده مرتبطًا بالضريح.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "كان جده لأمه غلام حسن الجشتي صديقًا ومستشارًا روحيًا لبهادور شاه ظفر، آخر أباطرة المغول، وكان يتردد على القلعة الحمراء؛ وكانت أمه تقصّ عليه حكايات الأسرة المغولية التي سمعتها من أبيها، وقد التقى بنفسه بابنة ظفر، كلثوم زماني بيغوم.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar} وتضيف المقالة الأردية أنه لم يتلقَّ تعليمًا نظاميًا بل علّم نفسه حتى أتقن العربية والفارسية والأردية، وأنه بدأ حياته ببيع الكتب حاملًا ربطاتها مشيًا من دلهي القديمة إلى الجديدة.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مؤلفاته",
     "markdown": "يُنسب إليه أكثر من خمسمائة كتاب في موضوعات شتى، منها حوادث ثورة الهند سنة 1857.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} ومن كتبه: «فاطمي دعوة إسلام» (1920) و«غدر كي صبح أور شام» و«كريشان بيتي» و«بيغمات کے آنسو» أي دموع البيغمات، وهي قصص الناجين من انتفاضة 1857، وسيرته الذاتية «آب بيتي»؛ كما نشر مذكرات بهادور شاه ظفر.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar} وتذكر المقالة الأردية أن مؤلفاته نحو أربعين عند بعضهم ونحو ثلاثمائة عند باحث آخر، وتفصّل مسيرته الصحفية في جرائد «رعيت» و«منادي» وجريدته «توحيد» التي أصدرها من ميروت.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوفه وتلاميذه",
     "markdown": "كان من سلسلة نظام الدين أولياء المعروفة، ويحظى بتكريم واسع في العالم الإسلامي، وكان له تلاميذ كثيرون ظهر أثرهم في أدبه.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar} وتنص المقالة الأردية على أنه أبقى سلسلة البيعة والإرشاد جارية، وأن خلقًا لا يُحصى دخلوا في حلقة مريديه.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "محرم في دلهي",
     "markdown": "بعد تقسيم الهند سنة 1947 هاجر معظم مسلمي دلهي إلى باكستان فلم يبقَ في المدينة خطيب شيعي يخاطب المجلس في محرم؛ فملأ خواجة حسن النظامي الفراغ بمخاطبة المجلس في بانجا شريف، مدعومًا من مولانا أحمد سعيد ومولانا زبير قريشي والقاضي فياس ديف ميشرا، رغم انتمائه هو نفسه إلى أهل السنة والجماعة.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وأثره",
     "markdown": "توفي في 31 تموز 1955 في دلهي ودُفن في حرم ضريح نظام الدين أولياء.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur} وقد كتب الدكتور ماجد الديوبندي أطروحة دكتوراه عنه، وجمعت مارسيا هيرمانسن من جامعة لويولا في شيكاغو قائمة ببليوغرافية بمؤلفاته.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-hasan-nizami}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Khwaja Hasan Nizami (born Syed Ali Hasan; 26 December 1878 – 31 July 1955) was an Indian Sufi saint and a noted Urdu essayist, humorist and satirist who wrote many essays for the Makhzan Akhbar magazine.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} The Urdu article calls him a Sufi of the Chishti silsila and an Urdu writer, and records that he was born at the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi, where his father was attached to the shrine.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "His maternal grandfather, Ghulam Hasan Chisti, was a friend and spiritual adviser to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and frequently visited the Red Fort; his mother told him the stories of the Mughal family she had heard from her father, and he himself met Zafar's daughter Kulsum Zamani Begum.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} The Urdu article adds that he received no formal schooling but educated himself, attaining command of Arabic, Persian and Urdu, and that he began by carrying bundles of books on foot from Old Delhi to New Delhi to sell.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Writings",
     "markdown": "He is credited with more than five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects, including accounts of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} Among his many books are Fatami Dawat-i-Islam (1920), Gadar ki Subah aur Sham, Krishan Beeti, Begumat Kay Ansoo (\"Tears of the Begums\", stories of survivors of the uprising of 1857), and his autobiography Ap Biti; he also published Bahadur Shah Zafar's diary.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} The Urdu article puts his works at around forty by one count and near three hundred by another, and notes his journalistic career with the newspapers Raiyyat, Munadi and his own Tauheed, published from Meerut.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sufism and disciples",
     "markdown": "He was of Nizamuddin Auliya's known silsila, and widely honoured in the Muslim world.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} Being a Sufi, he had many disciples, and it appeared in his literature.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} The Urdu article states that he maintained the practice of piri-muridi — taking and guiding disciples — and that countless people entered his circle of discipleship.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Muharram in Delhi",
     "markdown": "After Partition in 1947, most of Delhi's Muslims had migrated to Pakistan and the city had no Shia orator to address the majlis during Muharram; Nizami filled the gap by addressing the majlis at Panja Sharif, supported by Maulana Ahmad Saeed, Maulana Zubair Qureshi and Justice Vyas Dev Mishra, despite his himself being part of the Ahl us Sannah wal Jammah.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "He died on 31 July 1955 in Delhi and was buried within the enclosure of Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur} A doctoral thesis has been written on him by Dr Majid Deobandi, and Marcia Hermansen of Loyola University Chicago has compiled a bibliography of his publications.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-hasan-nizami}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "خواجہ حسن نظامی (پیدائشی نام سید علی حسن؛ 26 دسمبر 1878 – 31 جولائی 1955) ہندوستانی صوفی بزرگ اور اردو کے معروف انشا پرداز، مزاح نگار اور طنز نگار تھے، جن کے مضامین «مخزن» میں چھپتے رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} وہ دہلی میں حضرت نظام الدین اولیاء کی درگاہ پر پیدا ہوئے، جہاں ان کے والد درگاہ سے وابستہ تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "ان کے نانا غلام حسن چشتی آخری مغل بادشاہ بہادر شاہ ظفر کے دوست اور روحانی مشیر تھے اور قلعہ لال میں آتے جاتے رہتے تھے؛ والدہ انھیں مغلیہ خاندان کی کہانیاں سناتی تھیں اور انھوں نے خود ظفر کی صاحبزادی کلثوم زمانی بیگم سے ملاقات کی تھی۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en} اردو مضمون کے مطابق انھوں نے کسی درس گاہ سے باقاعدہ تعلیم حاصل نہیں کی، خود پڑھ کر عربی، فارسی اور اردو میں دسترس حاصل کی، اور ابتدا میں پرانی دہلی سے نئی دہلی پیدل جا کر کتابیں بیچا کرتے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف",
     "markdown": "انھیں پانچ سو سے زائد کتابوں کا مصنف قرار دیا جاتا ہے، جن میں 1857 کی بغاوت کے واقعات بھی شامل ہیں؛ ان کی مشہور کتابوں میں «بیگمات کے آنسو»، «غدر دلی کے افسانے»، «سیپارہ دل»، «کرشن کتھا» اور ان کی آپ بیتی شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur} اردو مضمون ان کی تصانیف کی تعداد ایک قول پر چالیس اور ایک تحقیق پر تین سو کے لگ بھگ بتاتا ہے، اور ان کی صحافتی زندگی کا آغاز روزنامہ «رعیت» سے ذکر کرتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوف اور مریدین",
     "markdown": "وہ سلسلہ چشتیہ کے صوفی تھے، حضرت نظام الدین اولیاء کے عقیدت مند تھے اور پیری مریدی کا سلسلہ جاری رکھتے تھے؛ بے شمار لوگ ان کے حلقہ مریدی میں داخل ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur} انگریزی مضمون انھیں نظام الدین اولیاء کے معروف سلسلے سے بتاتا ہے اور کہتا ہے کہ صوفی ہونے کی وجہ سے ان کے تلامذہ بہت تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے 31 جولائی 1955 کو دہلی میں وفات پائی اور بارگاہ حضرت نظام الدین اولیاء کے احاطے میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-hasan-nizami-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-hasan-nizami}}"
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