Multiple choice

Which of the following statements about Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya, the founder of Suharawardi Silsilah in India is not correct?

  1. He believed in self-mortification

  2. He did not consider poverty as a necessary means for spiritual life

  3. He justified his riches by saving that money enabled him to serve the poor better

  4. He did not reject the concept of sama
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Explanation

Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya, the founder of the Suharawardi Silsilah in India, did not believe in extreme asceticism or poverty. He believed that wealth could be used for the service of the poor and did not reject worldly life in the same way as the Chishti order.

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