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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Khwaja Baqi Billah
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = 14 July 1564
| birth_place = [[Kabul]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1603|11|29|1564|7|14}}
| death_place = [[Old Delhi|Delhi]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| father = Qāzī Abd as-Salām Khalji Samarqandī Quraishi
| religion = [[Islam]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
| creed = [[Maturidi]]
| Sufi_order = [[Naqshbandi]]
| main_interests = Implementation of [[Sharia|Islamic law]], Islamic statehood
| influenced_by =
| influenced = [[Ahmad Sirhindi]]
| notable_ideas = Evolution of [[Islamic philosophy]], application of [[Sharia]]
| influences = [[Muhammad Amkanagi]]
| resting_place = Nabi Karim, Delhi
| pen_name = Berang
}}
{{Sufism|Notable early}}{{Short description|Naqshbandi Sufi saint}}
'''Khwaja''' '''Baqi Billah''' ({{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|خواجه باقی بالله}}}}) also known as '''Khwaja''' '''Muhammad Baqi''',<ref name=":0">https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144524519.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=July 2025}}</ref> with his pen name '''Berang''', (14 July 1564– 29 November 1603), was a [[Sufi]] saint from [[Kabul]]. He was a disciple of Khwaja [[Muhammad Amkanagi]] and the pioneer of the [[Naqshbandi]] Order in the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/ikram/part2_13.html|access-date=2009-11-15|title=Article on KhwajaBaqi Billah }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.almazhar.com/bio_hazrat_k_baqibillah.php|title=HAZRAT KHAWAJA BAQI BILLAH R.A|access-date=2009-11-16|archive-date=2022-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909132240/http://www.almazhar.com/bio_hazrat_k_baqibillah.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ellison Banks Findly|title=Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India |publisher=Oxford University Press|date=Feb 1993|pages= 208|isbn=978-0-19-507488-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Malika Mohammada|title=The foundations of the composite culture in India|year=2007|pages=181|publisher=Aakar Books |isbn=978-81-89833-18-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwzbYvQszf4C&q=Khwaja+Baqi+Billah&pg=PA181}}</ref>

== Birth ==
Baqi Billah was the originator and pioneer of the [[Naqshbandi]] Order in the [[Indian subcontinent]]. His father Abd as-Salām Khalji Samarqandī Quraishi was a scholar and saint from Kabul. His [[Takhallus]] (pen name) was "Berang", which literally means colorless or invisible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maktabah.org/blog/?p=909|title=Article on KhwajaBaqi Billah |date=17 August 2013 }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

==Death==
He died on 14 [[Jumada al-Thani]] 1012 [[Hijri year|AH]] (29 November 1603) and is buried in the Nabi Karim area of Delhi.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}

== Works ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Title
!Original language
!English title
!Brief description
|-
|''Maktubat-e-Khwaja Baqi Billah''
| rowspan="3" |Persian
|Letters of Khwaja Baqi Billah
|A collection of letters addressing spiritual training, Sufi discipline, and Naqshbandi teachings; considered his principal work.
|-
|''Risala-e-Ahwal wa Ma‘arif''
|Treatise on Spiritual States and Knowledge
|A short Sufi treatise discussing inner states, spiritual awareness, and the path of self-purification.
|-
|''Ta‘limat-e-Naqshbandiyya''
|Teachings of the Naqshbandi Order
|A concise exposition of Naqshbandi principles, practices, and ethical discipline.
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Hanafis]]
[[Category:Maturidis]]
[[Category:Naqshbandi order]]
[[Category:Ziyarat]]
[[Category:1564 births]]
[[Category:1603 deaths]]

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