Hazrat Meher Ali Shah

 Meher Ali Shah Urdu پیر مہر على شاه; 14 April 1859 - May 1937, was a Sufi scholar from British India (present-day Pakistan) belonging to the Hittite system. 

Meher Ali Shah in middle age

He is known as the Hanafi scholar leading the anti-Ahmadiyya movement. He authored a number of books, most notably Saif e Chishtiyai's "Sword of the Chishti Sect", a difficult work criticizing Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's Ahmadiyya movement.

Shah was a descendant, on the side of his father Nazr Din Shah, of Abdul Qadir Jilani in the 25th generation, and the Muslim prophet Muhammad by Hassan Ibn-e-Ali in the 38th generation. 

Sufism

On the side of his mother Masuma Mawsufa, he comes from Abdul Qadir Jilani in the 24th generation and Muhammad through Hussain Ibn-e-Ali in the 37th generation.

Mawsufa

He received his early religious education in Khanqah a school located in a monument and was assigned to Urdu and Persian classes in the local Madressah.

 After completing his studies in Angah at the age of 15, he decided to continue his studies in the United Provinces U.P of India. 

So he began receiving higher education in various parts of India such as Lucknow, Deoband, Rampur, Kanpur, Aligarh, Delhi and Saharanpur, which were the main centers of religious education then known.

Sial Sharif

His stay in Aligarh at Lutfullah's madrasah of Aligarh lasted two and a half years.Shah was a student and Caliph of Khawaja Shams-ud-din Sialvi of Sial Sharif in Silsila-e-Chishtia Nizamiyah. 

His historian Meher-e-Muneer records that he was also made a caliph by Imdadullah Muhajir Makki, during a visit to the latter in Mecca.

Shah was a supporter of Ibn Arabi's view of Wahdat-ul-Wujood but made a distinction between creation and the creator as did Ibn Arabi. He also wrote explaining Ibn Arabi's doctrine of "Unity of Being".

In 1933, Shah focused on his meditations and mysteries. In that year the philosopher Muhammad Iqbal had to study at the University of Cambridge in the sense of Ibn Arabi from time to time.

 He wrote a letter to Shah saying that now there was no one in Hindustan to consult with him on the matter, and asked him to tell him about Ibn Arabi's work. Shah, however, because of his meditation and poor health, was unable to respond.

In the old town of Rawalpindi, a historic Mughal Central Jamia Masjid style mosque was built in 1903 as a symbol of Muslim unity in the Potohar region with donations from the Rawalpindi Muslim community. 

The mosque was completed in two years and was opened by the Sufi saint of Golra Sharif, Pir Meher Ali Shah, and the ousted Afghan king Ayub Khan who was living in Rawalpindi at the time.

Early in the month of Safar 1356-A.H (April 1937), he contracted a severe case of typhoid fever, which lasted for several days. 

His condition worsened during the last days of Safar. On the morning of 29 Safar 11 May 1937, the heartbeat became abnormal and the body temperature suddenly changed.

Just before the last unchanging last minute, he uttered the words “Allah” in the depths of his heart in a way that sent shivers down his body from head to toe, with your turn felt by everyone. it happens to touch the body.

 The next minute, he repeated the word "Allah" a second time and turned his head towards Qibla, thus indicating that the end had come. 

His three-day Urs annual death anniversary is held annually from the 27th to the 29th of Safar. Thousands of devotees from all over Pakistan will visit the grave of the twentieth century punjabi mystic sufi poet, Pir Meher Ali Shah.