Bekhud Badayuni

Muhammad AbdulHayy Siddiqui , writing under the penname Bekhud Badayuni , was one of the leading Urdu poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bekhud Badayuni was born on September 17, 1857 into Badayuns prominent Siddiqui family, known for its leadership in the areas of Islamic scholarship, mysticism , and literary pursuits. He was a descendant of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr an intermediate ancestor, Hameeduddin Mukhlis, immigrated to Delhi from Iran in the late 13th century during the reign of Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban, and was the brother of Shaikh Saadi Shirazi, one of the seminal and mostquoted poets of Persian literature. Balban appointed Hameeduddin qadiulquddat and granted him an extensive landholding in Badayun, at the time one of the key cities of the Delhi Sultanate. It is also reported that Hameeduddin presented Saadis two major works, Golistan and Bostan, as a gift to Prince Muhammad Shaheed .

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