Ajmer Sharif Langar is a community kitchen which is part of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, a spiritually powerful site in India. People of all religions and backgrounds come to Ajmer Sharif Dargah and receive free food.
The community kitchen of Ajmer Sharif is based on Sufism values. Sufism is a mystical part of Islamic faith. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti is the founder of the Ajmer Chishti Order. Khwaja is famous for his teaching on serving humanity and on love.
At the shrine, food is considered a grace, and is a meal to fill the shrine after a blessed journey. Many devotees, after service and participation in community meals, value the post-communal meal fulfillment and peace that resides in the spirit.
1. Community Meals for All
Visiting the Ajmer Sharif shrine and participating in the Langar is a wonderful experience. Many people find food at the Ajmer Sharif shrine is deeply spiritually fulfilling. Many Middle Eastern cultures view food as a means of communication. In the tradition of food at the Ajmer Sharif shrine, food is a direct communication of love, humility and spirit-ease.
2. Donations and Volunteerism
Ajmer Sharif Langar is completely funded by the community. The Langar is completely based on volunteerism. It relies on the giving spirit, not just of the people, but also the faith communities of India and beyond.
3. Promoting Peace amongst Community Members of Different Faith
At various community meals held at Ajmer Sharif Langar, meals are served to members of all religions, especially the approximately equal members of the faith organization groups of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians. In the community and the world, it preserves the social and religious peace.
4. Fostering Peace and Order
The Ajmer Sharif Langar system nurtures a world that is peaceful and at peace. In the system, a fast, a meal, and several blessed provisions are served communal, complementary, and in a polite exchange system.
While Ajmer Sharif Langar is a meal service, it also stands testimony to an ideology and practice of universal brotherhood. He breaks social discrimination and preaches that all of creation is equal to the Creator.
Visitors describe the experience as emotionally overwhelming as it facilitates a spiritual home.
While visiting the dargah, you are invited to:
Consider the spiritual environment
Partake in the langar with an open heart
Be mindful of the duties ascribed to the helpers
Be attuned to the harmony and wholeness it awakens
Ajmer Sharif Langar is ever-lasting and ever-giving. It is underscored with selfless humanitarian spirit by being operational everyday under the auspices of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah.
Ajmer Dargah Sharif explains that the capstone of spirituality is reached when service to humanity is done with the conviction that humanity is one.