Jalal Mujarrad Kunya - popularly known as Hazret Shah Jalal, was a celebrated Sufi figure of Bengal.
According to some historian, Hazret Shah Jalal was said to have been born on May 25, 1271.

Some scholars believed that he was born in the city of Qūniyah (Konya) in modern-day Turkey. Others believed, he was born in to the village of Kaninah in Yemen's Hadhramaut region.

Shah Jalal was educated and raised by his maternal uncle, Syed Ahmad Kabir Suhrawardi. in Makkah.He excelled in his studies; became a hafiz and mastered fiqh. He became a makhdoom, teacher of Sunnah.

Hazret Shah Jalal's maternal uncle, Syed Ahmad Kabir, gave him a handful of soil and asked him to travel to the Indian subcontinent. He instructed him to choose to settle and spread Dawah in any place in India where the soil exactly matches that which he gave him in smell and colour. Many people joined Shah Jalal for the journey from the Arabian peninsula including his nephew Shah Paran.
During the later stages of his life, Shah Jalal devoted himself to propagating Islam.
The famous traveller Ibn Battuta, then in Satgaon, made a one-month journey through the mountains of Kamarupa, north-east of Sylhet, to meet him. On his way to Sylhet via Habung, Ibn Battuta was greeted by several of Shah Jalal's disciples who had come to assist him on his journey many days before he had arrived. At the meeting in 1345, Ibn Battuta noted that Shah Jalal was tall and lean, fair in complexion and lived by the mosque in a cave, where his only item of value was a goat he kept for milk, butter, and yogurt. He observed that the companions of the Shah Jalal were foreign and known for their strength and bravery.
In 1303, Sultan Shamsuddin Firoz Shah of Lakhnauti was engaged in a war with the neighbouring Gour Kingdom in the Sylhet region, then under the rule of the Hindu king Gour Govinda.
The war began when Shaykh Burhanuddin, a Muslim living in Sylhet, sacrificed a cow for his newborn son's aqiqah (birth celebration). Govinda, in a fury for what he saw as sacrilege, had the newborn killed as well as having Burhanuddin's right hand cut off.


When word of this reached Sultan Firoz Shah, an army commanded by his nephew, Sikandar Khan and later his Sipah Salar (Commander-in-chief) Syed Nasiruddin, was sent against Gour. Three successive strikes were attempted, all ending in failure.

A fourth attack, now with the aid of Shah Jalal and his companions was undertaken. The combined Muslim forces ultimately claimed victory against Gour. Govinda was forced to retreat and Sylhet was brought under Muslim control. According to tradition, Shah Chashni Pir at this point compared the soil in Sylhet with that which was previously given to Jalal by his uncle, finding them to be identical. Following the battle, Shah Jalal and his followers settled in Sylhet.
Later on, the largest mosque in Sylhet was built at the Dargah of Hazret Shah Jalal.

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