Jamali Kamboh

Shaikh Jamaluddin Kamboh Dehlwi (died 1536), better known as Jamali Kamboh, was a 16th-century Sufi saint and poet from Delhi during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal eras. He was a part of the Suhrawardiyya Order and a pupil of poet Jami and of Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh.

Jamali Kamboh was father of Shaikh Gadai Kamboh. His tomb is situated in the Mehrauli Archeological Park, close to the Qutb Minar in Delhi.

Biography Jamali came from a Punjabi Muslim Sunni family but was initiated into Sufism by his teacher Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh.

As a poet in Persian, Shaikh Jamali had been styled Khusrau-i-Sani ("Khusrau, the second"). He wrote Siyar-i-Arifin (completed between 1530 and 1536) in Persian which is an account of the Chishti and Suhrawardi Sufis of the period. He also authored other works called Masnawi, Mihr wa Mähi Shaikh and a Diwan of verses.

Shaikh Jamali had once admonished Sultan Sikandar Lodi for his shaven chins and for his failure to observe the obligatory prayers, fasts and for his mundane indulgences.

He died in 1536 while accompanying the Mughal emperor Humayun in the latter's expedition to Gujarat. His son Shaikh Gadai Kamboh, a scholar and philosopher, was also his disciple and successor.