The mother's courtyard. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Here you will meet Bibi Zulekha, the mother of Delhi’s 14th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. The shrine is known among the devotees as Mai Sahiba ki dargah. Bibi Zulekha’s parents arrived in the Indian subcontinent following the Mongol invasions in their central Asian hometown Bukhara.* They settled in Badayun, a town 150 miles northwest of Delhi. Bibi Zulekha was married to Khwaja Syed Ahmad; his parents too were from central Asia. The couple had a daughter and a son. The husband died when the son was two. A few years later the mother moved to Delhi with her children. According to legends, the family lived in great poverty in Delhi –