Khawajah Syed Qutbuddin Maudood Chishti was an early day Sufi Saint,a successor to his father and master Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan,twelfth link in the Sufi silsilah of Chishti Order,and the Master of Shareef Zandani. He was born around 430 Hijri in the city of Chisht. He initially received education from his father. He memorized the Qur'an by age 7 and completed his education when he was 16. His work includes two books,Minhaaj ul Arifeen and Khulaasat ul Shariah. He died in the month of Rajab at the age of 97 in 533 AH. He was buried at Chisht like many of the early Chishtiyya.
Allo Mahar is a village and union council of Daska Tehsil,Sialkot District in Punjab,Pakistan. The village is located at 32°23'60N 74°25'0E and lies located 8 km to the west of Daska and 15 km southwest of the district capital –Sialkot. It holds the title of a modern village of tehsil Daska. It contains the shrines of many Nakshbandi saints and preachers. It is known as it is the birthplace of prominent Islamic Naqshbandi saint Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri who started the religious lineage (silsila) known as Naqshbandia Mujadadia Aminia.
The Naqvis are people found predominantly in Iran,Iraq,and the South Asian countries. They claim descent from the Imam.
Khalid Hasan Shah was an Islamic religious leader and an exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism.
Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri was an Islamic scholar,saint,and preacher in South Asia. He founded the Aminia branch of the Sunni Naqshbandi order. He preached Islam in South Asia and brought non-Muslims into the fold of Islam. His adherents call themselves Naqshbandi mujadadi amini or Maharvi or just Naqshbandi,since Syed Channan Shah belonged to the Naqshbandi order.
Khawaja Muhammad Qamar Ud Din Sialvi (1906–1981),known as Shaykh-ul-Islam,was a Pakistani Islamic scholar,religious leader and politician. He was a Waliullah of the Chishti Sufi order;his Sufi convent (zawyah) is located in the village of Sial Sharif.
Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri was a Pakistani Muslim scholar as well as the spiritual heir of Khanqah-e-Rahimia Raipur (India) and a contemporary authority of Shah Waliullah's thought. He was among prominent disciples of Maulana Shah Ilyas Kandhalvi,founder of Tablighi Jamaat and Sheikh-ul-Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariya. Rising above practical politics,on the basis of the thought of Shah Waliullah,Sheikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmood-ul-Hasan,Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri,Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi and Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani,he established JTI in 1967. Under his supervision,a journal named "Azm (عزم)" was launched in 1974 which is still being published. In 1987,he established an organization "Tanzeem Fikr-e-Waliullahi" based on the philosophical works of Shah Waliullah. He established "Shah Waliullah Media Foundation" to publish literature based on Waliullahi philosophy. He also established Rahimia Institute of Quranic Sciences,Lahore in 2001. There are currently five other campuses of Rahimia Institute of Quranic Sciences in Karachi,Sukkur,Multan,Rawalpindi and Peshawar. Thousands of youth are associated with the institute through the organization of seminars and other events.
Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi was an Islamic saint of Allo Mahar,a village and union council of Daska Tehsil,Sialkot District in Punjab,Pakistan.
Akhundzada Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi was a Muslim theologian,jurist,and scholar of ahadith in Pakistan. He was active in the Pakistan movement,and served as a member of Council of Islamic Ideology. He was the companion of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and was active in the independence movement of Pakistan against the British Raj. He was a Sufi of the Chishti Sufi order and the founding member of the religious Barelvi Sunni strain political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP). He became its president in 1948. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of Nishan-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan. He was also the chairman of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat,an organisation opposed to the Ahmadiyya Movement that waged a campaign against Mirza Ghulam Ahmed's claim of prophethood.
Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat is the programmatic name of a Pakistani Barelvi organization and Islamic religious movement in Pakistan aiming to protect the belief in the finality of prophethood of Muhammad based on Quran and Sunnah concept of Khatam an-Nabiyyin. It was founded by Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi in 1950 with Zafar Ali Khan,Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni,Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi,Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah,Ahmad Saeed Kazmi,Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi,Pir of Manki Sharif Amin ul-Hasanat,Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari,Sardar Ahmad Qadri and Muhammad Hussain Naeemi. Later on the prominent Barelvi leaders Shah Ahmad Noorani,Shaikh ul Quran Allama Ghulam Ali Okarvi,Pir Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui,Muhammad Shafee Okarvi,Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri,Iftikharul Hasan Shah and Khalid Hasan Shah also joined them to oppose the Ahmadiyya Movement.
Pir Syed Jamaat Ali Shah was a Pakistani author,Islamic scholar and Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi Order. He presided over the All India Sunni Conference and led the Movement for Shaheed Ganj Mosque. He was a contemporary of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi,the founder of Barelvi movement.
All India Sunni Conference was an organization of Indian Sunni Muslims associated with Sufism and this Conference became the voice of Barelvi movement in British India. The Conference was established in 1925 in the wake of Congress led secular Indian nationalism,changing Geo-political situation of India by leading Barelvi personalities of that time including Jamaat Ali Shah,Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi,Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri,Amjad Ali Aazmi,Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni,Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi and Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah among others.
Muhammad Amin Shah Sani was a Sufi scholar from Pakistan belonging to the Naqshbandi order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar and saint. He received his early Qur'anic education at the Khankah Allo Mahar. The first of his ancestors in Allo Mahar was Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi,well known by the pen-name of Shair Sawar Sarkar. He traces his roots to the first Arab Shaikhs descending from Muhammad through the lineage of Husayn.
Sayyid Kastir Gul (1573–1653) was an Islamic jurist and Sufi saint who is revered among Afghans and Pakistanis. He is the patriarch of the Kakakhel tribe.
The most well-known treatises and reports, written by the authors of the early period are:
