Ihsan Center – Islam From The Heart

Pir SM Rasheed-ul-Hasan Jeeli-ul-Kaleemi (ra)(popularly known as Pir Rasheed) was the shajjada nasheen of the Kaleemi Astana and the Alami Sufi Center in Hyderabad. He was loved by many people around the world and was a Sufi teacher and healer in the Chishti Kaleemi lineage. His great gandfather S Muhammad Hasan Jeeli Kaleemi was the murshid of SM Abu Hashem Madani who was the murshid of Hazrat Inayat Khan (may Allah (swt) raise them all to a high station.

Shaikh Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Qalandar Panipati (1209-1324 CE, born at Ganja, Azerbaijan) was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order who lived in India. His dargah (mausoleum) in the town of Panipat is a place of pilgrimage.

His real name was Shaykh Sharfuddin but he is famous by the title Bu-Ali Shah. His father, Shaykh Fakhar Uddin was a great scholar and saint of his time. He completed his studies at an early age and subsequently taught near the Qutub Minar in Delhi for 20 years.

Rana Safvi, a teacher-turned-author on premodern India, seeks to combat misinformation and historical revisionism by offering ‘accessible’ accounts of the country’s complex, oft-misinterpreted history.

Source: India’s Muslim, multi-faith past in focus through one woman’s quest to combat ‘altered history’ | South China Morning Post