THE CHISHTI ORDER چشتیہ
Khawaja Abu-Ishak Chishti was born in the tenth century. He
was a descendat of Mohammed. His followers are an off-shoot of the Line of the Masters, which later became known as
the People of the Design ('Naqshbandi').
This Chisti community, originated in Khorasan, specialized in the use of music in their exercises. They would enter a town and play a rousing air with flute and drum
to gather people round them before reciting a tale or leg-end of initiatory significance. They made their most enduring
impact upon India, and for the apst nine hundred years their musicians have been esteemed
throughout the subcontinent.
On Music
They know that we listen to music, and that we perceive certain secrets therein.
So they play music and cast themselves into 'states'.
Know that every learning must have all its requirements, not just music,
thought, concentration.
Remember:
Useless is a wonmderfull milk-yield
From a cow which kicks the pail over.
(Hadrat
Muinudin Chishti)
