Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin

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| region = Islamic philosophy

| era = Modern era

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| name = Syed Mohammad Tajuddin

| birth_date = January 27, 1861

| birth_place = Kamthi, British India

| death_date = {{death date and age|1922

|8|17|1861|1|27}}

| death_place = Nagpur, India

| school_tradition = Hanafi

| main_interests = Muraqaba

| influences = Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Ali Ibn Talib RA

| influenced = Yousuf Shah Taji, Karim Baba, Qalandar Baba Auliya, Meher Baba, Hazrat Ghulam Mustafa(Baba Miskeen Shah)

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Syed Mohammad Baba Tajuddin (January 27, 1861 – August 17, 1925), also known as Tajuddin Baba, was an Indian Sufi Master who is considered as the Shensha Haft Aqleem (Emperor of the Seven Realms) by his followers. His shrine is in Nagpur, India.Kalchuri, Bhau: Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, Volume One, Manifestation, Inc., 1986, p. 46

Birth

Tajuddin Baba was born in 1861 (1277 AH). He belongs to the family of Imam Hassan, being a tenth-generation descendant of the founder of the world Sufi Naqshbandi order, Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari, and a 22nd-generation descendant of the eleventh imam, Hasan al-Askari.{{Cite web|date=2017-08-03|title=Maqolalar|url=http://www.shajara.info/maqolalar|access-date=2021-05-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803171037/http://www.shajara.info/maqolalar|archive-date=3 August 2017}}{{Cite web|date=2017-08-03|title=Tasavvuf Ahli|url=http://www.shajara.info/tasavvuf-ahli|access-date=2021-05-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803171152/http://www.shajara.info/tasavvuf-ahli|archive-date=3 August 2017}}{{Cite web|last=Taji|first=Taj|date=2012-02-05|title=lineage|url=https://tajbaba.com/lineage|access-date=2021-05-15}}{{Cite web|title=Shajara-e-nasab lineages of descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari r.a.-Shajara.org|url=https://shajara.org/2020/06/29/1426/|access-date=2020-06-29|language=en-EN}} Baba's forefathers had migrated from Mecca and settled down in Madras, India. His father was an employee in military.{{Cite book|last=Bharucha|first=Ruzbeh N.|url=|title=The Perfect Ones|date=2015-04-01|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=|language=en}}

Early life

Baba Tajuddin was orphaned at a young age and raised by his maternal grandmother and uncle Abdul Rahman. He attended a madrasah in Kamthi, Nagpur.Kalchuri, Bhau: Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, Volume One, Manifestation, Inc., 1986, p. 47 There he met Abdulla Shah Naushahi who initiated him into the spiritual path.{{Cite book|last=Khurshid|first=Zahiruddin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Hmsg104ROEC&q=abdullah+shah+baba+nagpur&pg=PT25|title=From Kamptee to Dallas: One Information Professional's Journey Across Cultural Boundaries (India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United States)|date=2013-06-28|publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4836-3724-2|language=en}} and Hazrat Dawood Makki RA

Abdullah Shah Hussaini Qadri Shuttari Sahib{{Clarification needed|date=May 2021}} who was a Majzoob Salik saint from Qadri Shuttari Sufi order commented (about Baba) to his teacher that "There is no need of teaching this boy, he is already a learned person." He also gave young Tajuddin Baba some dried fruits and nuts as his blessings for Baba, which is said to put the young boy into an ongoing spiritual trance-like state. Baba completed his education and studied Urdu, English, Arabic and Persian.{{cite book|last1=Taji|first1=Zaheen Shah|title=Tajul Auliya|date=1956|publisher=Taj Company|location=Karachi|page=43|edition=2nd}}

Successors

Baba Tajuddin had several caliphs whom he had appointed to serve others over the course of his lifetime. However, his key successor was Molana Abdul Kareem Shah, who Baba Tajuddin named "Yousuf Shah" and called him his son. This is also the point where Taji Silsila (Sufi Chain) came into existence. Baba Yousuf Shah's body is buried in Mewashah Darga, Karachi, Pakistan in October 1947. And much before his own passing away, he had named one of his younger disciples, Kunwar Asghar Ali Khan as the next successor (Jaan Nasheen). Kunwar Asghar Ali Khan became known as "Albelay Shah Yousufi", and Zaheen Shah Taji was named as the caretaker (Sajjada Nasheen) to Yousuf Shah Baba's mausoleum. Among the several caliphs of Hazrat Baba Tajuddin another famous name is Hazrat Ghulam Mustafa, To whom Baba Tajuddin gave a title of”Miskeen Shah”. Hazrat Ghulam Mustafa (Baba Miskeen Shah) shrine located in Sikandrabad, District Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh.{{cn|date=June 2025}}

Names and titles

According to author Bhau Kalchuri, baba Badruddin was born Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin. Tajuddin says his real name is Syed Muhammad Tajuddin, and he is also known as Chiragh din (The light of religion). He is also known as Baba Tajuddin of Nagpur, Sayyad Mohammad Tajuddin, and Syed Mohammed Baba Tajuddin Aulia.