Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi (1274–1337) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a disciple of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya,and later his successor. He was the last important Sufi of the Chishti Order from Delhi. Kamaluddin Allama Chishti, Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesu Daraz, Khwaja Sheikh Kaleemullah Jahanaabaadi Khwaja Moinuddin Khurd Bin Khwaja Hisamuddin Jigar Sokhta Dehlavi's followers called him "Roshan Chirag-e-Delhi", which in Persian, means "Illuminated Lamp of Delhi". After his death, his tomb was built by Firuz Shah Tughluq (r. 1351 - 1388), the Sultan of Delhi in 1358, and later two gateways were added on either side of mausoleum. One of noted addition was a mosque built by a later Mughal emperor, Farrukhsiyar, in the early 18th century,and popular among both Muslims and non-Muslims. A humble tomb, allegedly the Tomb of Bahlul Lodi, the grave of the founder of the Lodhi dynasty (r.1451-89), lies close to the shrine, in the present day locality of ‘Chirag Delhi’ that grew around the tomb since 1800, and still goes by his name, it is very close to the locality of Greater Kailash, in South Delhi.
