Satish Chandra Test: Economic & Social Life, Education and Religious Belief- 1 - UPSC MCQ

Firdausi order was the branch of the Suharawardi order. Shaikh Badruddin Samarkandi was the founder of this order. This order was popular in Bihar. It was popularised by Shaikh Sharfuddin Yahya.

Guru Nanak said that a man was to be honored for his devotion to God and not for his social position. He said– “God knows man’s virtues and inquires not his caste; in the next world there is no caste.”

The correct answer is D as Ramananda was born in Allahabad. He was the worshiper of Lord Ram. Originally, he was a follower of Ramanuja, later he founded his own sect & preached his disciples in Hindi. He strongly believed in 2 ideals, namely:
1. Simplification of Worship.
2. Emancipation of people from traditional caste rule.

The most famous and the earliest biographer of Chaitanya, who wrote Chaitanya Charitamrita, was Kritivasa.

A bhakti saint who with great aversion for the Saktas said,”The Saktas and dogs are both brothers, the one is asleep while the other barks“. That saint was Kabir.

The enlightened master, Kabir left his body in Maghar in January 1518, Magh Shukl Ekadashi according to the Hindu calendar in Vikram Samvat 1575. After Kabir's death his tomb was built at Magahar.

Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya said, “To me, faith and infidelity are the same. What have I to do with any community or religion or sect”

Dadu said, “only those who considered themselves neech (low-born) before God attained salvation”.

Mahdavis, besides following the five pillars of Islam, also follow the seven obligations of sainthood, known as faraiz-e Wilaya Muhammadiya. These obligations are renunciation (tark-e dunya), quest for divine vision (talab didar-e Ilahi), company of truthfuls and ascetics (sohbath-e sadiqan), migration (hijrah), retreat and solitude (uzlath az khalq), absolute dependence on Allah (tawakkul), constant remembrance of Allah (zikr-e Ilahi) and distributing tithe (ushr).
Followers of Jaunpuri strictly follow some of these obligations in their day-to-day life. Most of them initiate renunciation in the advanced stage of their lives, after getting retirement from the jobs or by handing over business to their heirs. The second Mahdavi caliph, Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir and his fukhra disciples (the persons who renounce the world and keep remembering Allah with zikr), faced organised persecution by the regime of Muzaffar at the behest of his court-appointed Mullas and was killed in 1523 along with hundreds of unarmed and peaceful disciples.

The Sufi saint and his followers who loved to call themselves Rishis and not Sufis, were the followers of Shaikh Nuruddin Rishi of Kashmir.