Kunangudi Masthan Sahib
Early Life
Kunangudi Masthan Sahib (1800-1847) was a Sufi Saint and composer who has extreme fluency in both Arabic and Tamil Languages, is believed to be God's Lover. His tunes stay mainstream today, particularly in the Gaana music of Chennai.
Masthan Sahib,originally named Sultan Ahmad Kadiri Lebbai was born in Kunangudi, close to Tiruchirappalli. In his initial life, he was a seller of attar or perfume. Eventually, he surrendered a common life and turned into a parsimonious and spiritualist, meandering from one spot to another, living in woods, and ultimately getting comfortable in Chennai. He spent his last days for a long time in a home in the nursery of a well-off individual named Baba Lebbai.
Takya Sahib
He concentrated under the Marakkar Sufi legitimate researcher and artist Takya Sahib, who created messages on Arabic punctuation, philosophy, and jurisprudence. Takia Sahib had established one of Tamil Nadu's major local Muslim establishments, the Kilakarai takia. His Tamil stanza, very much as a disciple of his, is still popular.
Meditation
At the Tirupparankunram altar, Masthan Sahib is said to have encountered as significant otherworldly arousing while at the same time going through chilla, a forty-day time of confined meditation. His significant stanza assortment, the Masthan Saheb Padalgal, manages the force of this shrine.
Popularity & Devotees
Masthan Sahib showed his numerous devotees by creating around 100 reverential and philosophical sonnets, adding up to about 5000 lines. Many of them were demonstrated on crafted by kirtan authors and song journalists like Thayumanavar. Masthan Sahib's work has been depicted as having "emotion and feeling" equivalent to Thayumanavar, however with straightforward and conversational language that was now and then unrefined or obscene. Masthan Sahib was additionally impacted by the crafted by Tamil Siddhars (tantric adepts).
During the 2nd half of the nineteenth century, Aiyacami Mutaliyar formed an applause sonnet on Masthan Sahib entitled Kunankutiyar Patirruppattantati. Twentieth-century veena player V.S. Gomathisankara Iyer set his tunes to Carnatic tunes, making them appropriate for show play. A collection of his works sung by prominent Gaana vocalist Mylai Venu was delivered by India's National Folklore Support Center in 2008.
Dargah depicting Temple
His dargah in Chennai actually draws in travelers and visitors. It is built with a compositional style impacted by Hindu temples. Most strikingly, it has a mandapam (formal lobby or stage) looking like those in Tamil temples. That he melded impacts from Hindu artists with Sufi Muslim parsimony and lessons proposes his strictness was syncretic, consolidating numerous strands of Tamil spirituality. Also covered at his dargah are four of his supporters - Pulavar Nayagangal (Hazrath Sheik Abdul Qadir), Hazrath Qadir Mastan Sahib, Madhar Bibi, and Hazrath Ibrahim Sahib.
Local people of North Chennai, where he spent his last years, alluded to him as Tondiar ("somebody from Thondi"). So the neighborhood of Chennai where he resided came to be known as Tondiarpet, which is one of the most populous areas in North Chennai.
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