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| ⚫ | '''Khaja''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq| خواجه شيخ}}}}) are prominent branch of ] in ]. | ||
| ==Name== | |||
| '''Khawaja or Khwaja''' (]: خواجة khawājah, ]: خواجه pronounced khâje) is a title used in ], ], and ]. Khawaja is a Persian word . It means lord or master. | |||
| Khawaja is also used as family name in South Asia. In South Asia they are chisti and the ] is explained in detail below: A number of Chishti family members are now living in different parts of South Asia especially in northern Punjab province of Pakistan and also in Indian state of Gujarat. They often bear the surname "Khwaja" and it is claimed that they are ]. | |||
| ==Marriage customs== | |||
| '''Khawaja''' people usually marry within their own social affiliation that is '''"Sayyid or Khawaja"'''. They marry regardless of status wealth or class discrimination. Depending on circumstances a group (clan) may be as small as few hundred families and as large as few thousand families. For example, in the ] clan's definition, their clan system is to be an entire group having very few sub-groups, whereas Khawajas are branched into a dozen or two sub-groups. For the Bhat clan (a Kashmiri clan) a group, by and large, usually shares an ancestral village in Kashmir as a reference point. | |||
| Marriage into a family other than Khawaja family and between first cousins was discouraged in the past. Marriages to men outside the social group, i.e. the Khawaja clan (e.g. marrying outside such as Muslim Punjabi families), is now welcomed and accepted by a few Khawaja families, although some community elders may still discourage it. | |||
| Although most of the departed Group of families who are out of the '''Family clan system''' (]) are not following the antique family traditions. | |||
| ==People using the name Khawaja Sheikh== | |||
| Significant figures with the name, or using the title Khawaja in South Asia include: | |||
| *], also known as Khwaja Gharib Nawaz was a ] Muslim and is the most famous ] saint of the ] of South Asia. He was born in 536 A.H./1141 CE, in ], a famous city in ] province (other accounts say ]) in ]. He is also known as "Sultan-e-Hind." Descendants of ] saints also use this as a ], He was born in a ] family of Iran. | |||
| *] Khawaja Farid (Punjabi/Saraiki: خواجہ فرید)he was a great Sufi his shrine is located in the city of Pakpattan, otherwise Pākpattan Sharīf. | |||
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| *] ](born 1173-died 1235) was a renowned Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. | |||
| *] ] was a prominent "Suhrawardiyya" Sufi saint and missionary. Bukhari was called Surkh-posh ("Red-clad") on account of the red mantle he often wore. | |||
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| == Khatris == | |||
| When Khatri people from the western districts of the Punjab like ], ], ], ], ] accepted Islam called themselves ] and adopted ] as title. They are thus called ''Khawaja Sheikh''. Some of them have also adopted ] as title. In recent years traders from a small town of ],in the ], became prominent due to their contribution in the industries of ]. These traders are known as ] or '']s''. The famous trading family of ]s, Sahgal Khatris of ], are known simply as ''Punjabi Shaikh'' instead of ''Khawaja Shaikh''. They use Mian as titl KHOJAS AT MALER KOTLA: Many of KHAWAJA SHAIKH still reside in Maler Kotla, Distt. Sangrur, Punjab, India. They are known here as KHOJAS. They profess Shia ithna athri faith. They were settled here by Nawabs of Maler Kotla about 300 years ago. They held important Administrative posts in the court of the Nawabs. There is an Imambara(Hussainiyah) by the name of IMAMBARA KHOJGAN, Mutwalli of which is a person named Shaikh Azadar Hussain. Most of these people reside in a locality named MOHALLA KHOJGAN. In 1947 partition of India, A few families also migrated to Pakistan & reside in Karachi, Faislabad, Lahore & many other cities. | |||
| The first censuses of the Punjab were conducted by ] and ] in 1883 and 1892. According to their reports, the Khawajas of Bhera in Shahpur, ] were converted from Khatris, and those from ] were said to be converted from ]. At ] in ], Majority of the Khawajas are Khatris, while some are Arora. They reported the following sections (]s) of Khatris from Chiniot: | |||
| ''], ] ] (or Maghoon), ], Wihara, ], ], ]''. | |||
| The sections of Khawajas from Bhera were reported as follows: | |||
| ''], ], ], ], ], ], ].'' These are all ] sections. | |||
| The sections of Khawajas from Pindi Bhattian were reported as follows: | |||
| ''] and ].'' These are all ] sections. | |||
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