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Which Sufi saint of the Chisti order was given the title 'Chirag-i-Dehalvi' (Lamp of Delhi)?
A. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
B. Nizamuddin Auliya
C. Nasiruddin Mahmud✓ Correct Answer
D. Salim Chishti
💡 Solution & Explanation
Sheikh Nasiruddin Mahmud earned the venerated epithet Chirag-i-Dehalvi, translating to the Lamp of Delhi, as a leading Sufi mystic of the Chishti Silsila. Figures like Nizamuddin Auliya and Moinuddin Chishti held separate prominent titles within the spiritual lineage of medieval Indian Sufism.
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