#disciples of sheikh hamzah makhdoomi

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KHAJA Mohammad TAHIR RAFIQI ASHAI R.A

One among the influential Suhrawardi Sufis of Kashmir during the sixteenthcentury was Khwajah Tahir Rafiq ‘Asha’i, who was a contemporary of MakhdumShaykh Hamzah, the leading Suhrawardi Sufi of Kashmir. He was son of a clothmerchant namely Khwajah Ibrahim ‘Asha’i, along with whom he often used to visit Lahore for the business purpose. Khwajah Tahir became a disciple of Shaykh ‘Abd al Shakur, a…

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Hazrat Khawaja Hassan Qari RA,An iconic mystic.Khursheed Dar(Pohrupeth Langate)

Visit to Zaingair Sopore without paying visit to the shrine  Hazrat Khawaja Hassan Qari RA is incomplete.Recently I visited this shrine  .The mystic beauty of the  shrine prompted to write this column. While writing this column, my heart and soul is wandering in the mausoleum of this great saint.Being a student of history visiting the anonymous sufi shrines of Kashmir and writing prospectives is…

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Khwajah Muhammad Ishaq Qari:

He was the younger brother of Khwaja Hasan Qari. He achieved lessons inreligious sciences {Tafsir, Hadith, and Fiqh) from Baba Dawud Khaki and Baba ‘AliRaina. Before enrolling himself in the Sohrawardi order, like his brother, he used toserve Shaykh Ahmad Qalandar, an enraptured Sufi. Later on, his whole family enteredin the discipleship of Hadrat Makhdum Hamzah, after having witnessed his…

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SHEIKH UL ISLAM BABA DAWOOD KHAKI R.A - Ghulam rasool shaiva

SHEIKH UL ISLAM BABA DAWOOD KHAKI R.A – Ghulam rasool shaiva

From the family tree and biography of Hazrat Babab Dawood Khaki, it can be derived that he is from the progeny of Hazrat Aasim bin Amir-ul-Moominin Imam-ul Muslimeen the second Khalifa Umar bin Alkhitab (RA). When his ancestors entered Kashmir, they took the charge of the account keeping of the royal court. Those days a learned person used to be called as Ginai i.e. Munshi or Dahar.. He was from…