Usman Harooni

Khwaja Usman Harooni (6 May 1107 – 3 December 1220, Urdu: عثمان ہارونی) was an early modern wali or Sufi saint of Islam in India, a successor to Shareef Zandani, sixteenth link in the Silsila of the Chishti order, and master of Moinuddin Chishti.

[4] Harooni later met Shareef Zandani, a mystic and saint of the Chishti order, and requested to enroll as his spiritual disciple.

[5] Zandani told him that the four-edged cap implied the following four things: Harooni spent over thirty years in the company of his spiritual guide.

He visited many countries and cities, including Bukhara, Baghdad, Falooja, Damascus, India and Mecca and Medina.

Harooni visited India during the rule of Sultan Iltamish; before returning to Arabia for Hajj.

The first Urs ceremony was commemorated (originated) by Makhdoom Fariduddin Tavaela Bukhsh (First Sajjada Nasheen).

The esteemed details of the chillah & life of Usman Harooni are noted in the book "Moin ul Qul" by the late 19th century Sufi leader Gudri Shah Baba, of Ajmer.

According to Usman Harooni, a great man is one who is endowed with virtues such as contentment, sincerity, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and above all, spirit of renunciation.