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Hazrat Mohammed Khadim Hasan Shah, Nawab Gudri Shah Baba III

The following is from the website http://sufiajmer.net/gudrishahbaba3.html.

Hazrat Nawab Khadim Hasan Shah Gudri Shah Baba or Gudri Shah Baba III was born in Moradabad in the area known as Nawabpura. His grand father, Fida Ali Sahib who died on 12th June 1864, had developed the area. He was a very big landlord and owned thirty-seven villages. The date of Gudri Shah Baba III’s birth is given as 15th. December 1894 / 4th Jamadi us Sani, 1312 AH.

Abu Ishaq Shami is one of the first among the Sufi Chishti Order to call himself Chishti (of Chisht). The name Shami implies he came from Syria or even from Damascus (ash-Sham). Abu Ishaq Shami is supposedly to have met a Sufi who directed him to settle in Chisht, and accordingly he is known as Abu Ishaq Shami Chishti. He died in 940 in Damascus and some say that he is buried on Mount Qasiyun (many mazars are supposedly on this hill outside of Damascus where Cain slew Able), where later on also Ibn Arabi was buried but it is more likely that he was buried in Chishti e Sharif.

Hazrat Abu Ahmed Chishti was the son of Sultan Farsanafah. He was born in Chisht, Afghanistan on the 6th of Ramadhan 260AH. In the Chishti lineage, he was the disciple of Hazrat Khwaja Abu Ishaq Shami Chishti and the murshid of Hazrat Khwaja Abu Muhammad Chishti, may Allah be pleased with them all.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid, the top most spiritual poet in Siraiki Language, was born in 1845 A.D. at Kot Mithan, in a family of Arab settlers who had come to this country along with the Arab forces.

Maulana Khuda Bux had two sons, Khwaja Farid-ud-Din and Khawaja Fakhar-ud-Din. It is said that when Khwaja Ghulam Farid was a child, Maulana Muhammad gave him the first lesson of the first alphabet “ALIF” and asked him to say “ALIF”. He repeated the same again and again till every-one present there was enveloped by a trance. Some qawali singers were invited and they too recited the same word on their musical instruments. The trance remained in sway for a considerable time.

4th Rabi II Urs Hazrat Abu Yusuf Chishti (ra), 1067 AD.

Hazrat Abu Yusuf Chishti (ra) was an early day Sufi Saint, a successor to his maternal uncle and master Abu Muhammad Chishti (ra), eleventh link in the Sufi Silsilah of Chishti Order, and the father and Master of Maudood Chishti. Hazrat Abu Yusuf Chisti (ra) was a descendant the of Prophet Mohammad. He died on the 4th Rabi II 459 A.H (20 May 1067 C.E) at the age of 84. He was buried in chist, the cradle and early grave of the early Chishtyya .

He would say

“Indulgence in SAMA (audition of Sufi Music) achieves more than long enduring penitence.”