 On 22 June 1555, Humayun decisively defeated Sikandar Shah Suri at the Battle of Sirhind and reestablished the Mughal empire.The city reached the zenith of its glory under the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century.This city was a home of sixteenth-century saint Ahmad Sirhindi, popularly known as "Mujadid Alif Sani" which means 'Revivor of the Faith in the Second Millennium'.