Panj peer

Panj Peer (or Panj Pir), meaning the Five Great Saints in Persian, used to be accompanied together in their lifetime as follows:


 * Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (1142 – 1236) also known as 'Gharib Nawaz' (Ajmer, Rajasthan, India)
 * Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 3 April 1325), Delhi
 * Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173 – 1235), of Mehrauli, Delhi
 * Sheikh Baba Farid Ganjshakar (1179 – 1266) (Pakpattan, Punjab)
 * Baha'ud din Zakariya (1182 – 1268) (Multan, Punjab)
 * Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177 – 1274) (Sehwan, Sindh)

Above Sufi saints are mentioned in the great love-epic of the Sufi poet Sayyid Waris Shah "Heer Ranjha", which opens with an invocation to these holy sages.