Abdullah Shah Ghazi Arabic: عبد الله شاه غازي c. 720 was an eighth-century Muslim and a Sufi with his temple at Clifton in Karachi, Sindh province in Pakistan.
His real name was Abdullah al-Ashtar. His father, Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, was a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah.
Abdullah Shah Ghazi (Abdullah al-Ashtar
Sohail Lari suggests in his book, A History of Sindh that Shah Ghazi was an Arab merchant who had come to Sindh by the first wave of Arab invaders. However, another prominent historian, M.J.
Daudpota, suggests that Gazi came to the area from Iraq as a ruler, who, along with Muhammad Bin Qasim, fought Sindh's Hindu ruler Raja Dahir in the eighth century.
Abdullah Shah Ghazi was allegedly killed by his enemies in the interior forest of Sindh. His devotees buried his body on a hillside, where he had boarded an Arab ship. The area is now close to Clifton and Sea View in Karachi.
The tomb is located on a high plateau, although the body is kept underground. The temple is made up of a high, square room and a dome with green and white stripes, adorned with Cindy tiles, flags, and belts.
Devotees of the temple gleaned the silver around the burial place and then hung it on wreaths. The sanctuary is highly esteemed and revered by people of all races and religions.
Until the early twentieth century, the sanctuary was a small house on a sandy hill in Clifton. The shrine was built and expanded by Syed Nadir Ali Shah, a Sufi shrine of the Qalandariyya Sufi Order of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and the custodian of the shrine at that time.
The iconic dome of the temple, the ambulance with windows, the Mosque, the free kitchens or the Langar Khana, the Qawwali court and the pilgrim lodge in its courtyards, and the steep steps leading to the sanctuary, are built under his direction.
The sanctuary became a center of attraction for people of all denominations, races, and social groups. Free food and devotional poems such as Qawwali were remarkable features of the temple.
The temple was always connected with the dedication and residence of Syed Nadir Ali Shah, known as Kafi in Sehwan Sharif and for a long time shrine and langar, arrangements continued under his direction.
In 1962, the Auqāf department took control of it. Two free meals a day started by Syed Nadir Ali Shah continued under the supervision of his students.
In 2011, the sanctuary was dedicated to a Pakistani construction giant, Bahria Town, who renovated the exterior of the temple. This received mixed reactions from the people of Karachi.
The temple of Abdullah Shah Ghazi was attacked in 2010 by soldiers who detonated two suicide bombers at a shrine, killing 10 and injuring 50.
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