Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that sufi saints always taught the values of service to humanity and promoted fellow feelings among the people.
Speaking at the seminar on Sufism and National Integration on the occasion of Urs of Hazrat Khwaja Garib Nawaz in New Delhi on Thursday, Hooda said that the people from all sections of society come to the Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti from all over the world. The Dargah of Garib Nawaz is a symbol of national integration, he added.
Hooda said that a number of Sufi saints came to India to preach values of truth, love, non-violence and fellow feeling to the people. Haryana also has been the land of Rishi- Munis and Sufi saints. Panipat had been a centre of sufi saints, where Hazrat Bu Ali Shah Kalandar, Hazrat Sheikh Shamsuddin Turk Panipati and Hazrat Sheikh Musa Chisti lived. Mr Hooda said that people from all religions, castes and sections took part in the independence struggle of the country. He congratulated the Universal Association for Spiritual Awareness for organizing this important seminar. He was also honoured with the award of Haryana Vikas Purush on this occasion.