Bihar

• 10 Feb 2025

Maner Sharif

Why in News? 

The Bihar Chief Minister attended the 756th Urs of Hazrat Makhdoom Shah Kamaluddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri at Maner Sharif. 

• Urs is an annual festival that commemorates the death anniversary of a Sufi saint. 

Key Points  

• About Maner Sharif:  
  • It is located in Patna district of Bihar. The old name of this city was Maniyar Mathan which means musical city. 
  • The town contains the tombs of the Sufi saints Makhdum Yahya Maneri and Makhdum Shah Daulat , known as the Badi Dargah (Great Shrine) and Chhoti Dargah (Small Shrine) . 
    • Makhdoom Shah Daulat was buried here in 1616, and in 1619, Ibrahim Khan, the ruler of Bihar, constructed a small dargah at the site. 
• Urs:  
  • The annual Urs is organized at the birthplace of Makhdoom Shah in the Maner Dargah complex with the cooperation of the Tourism Department of the Government of Bihar and the District Administration .

Makhdoom Yahya Maneri

• He is also known as Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihari and Makhdoom-e-Jahan. He was born in July 1264 AD in Maner, a village near Patna.  
• He had a deep understanding of Arabic, Persian, logic, philosophy, religion and Tasawwuf (Sufism).  
• His father, Makhdoom Kamaluddin Yahya Maneri bin Israel bin Taj, who belonged to the Firdausi sect, was a Sufi saint of Maner (Palestine), who was a Sufi saint of Maner.