Ihsan Center – Islam From The Heart

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.”

Station of the Wayfarers by Sheikh al Islam Abdullah Al Ansari

Stations of the Wayfarers has always been one of the pillars of Sufi studies for Arabic-speaking scholars and students. For generations, seekers and novices have depended on it to build up their knowledge. The fact that no English translation of this basic treatise exists is regrettable, although excerpts of it have been provided, notably in Professor Ravan Farhadi’s work on Abdullah Al-Ansari published in the Curzon Sufi Series in 1996. The present complete translation is therefore aimed at filling that gap. English-speaking scholars and students will find in it an authoritative, detailed and inspiring description of the spiritual stages leading to annihilation and union with the Supreme Being.

Khwaja Abu Muhammad Chishti was a mureed of Hazrat Khwaja Abu Ahmad Abdal Chishti and the murshid of Hazrat Khwaja Abu Yusuf Chishti. You can see the silsila of the current Inayati lineage here.

He was the son of Hazrat Makhdoom Shaikh Ahllullah Miyan(ra) and the grandson of Muhammad Barkatullah Miyan(ra).

Right from his infancy, the child wasted no time in games and devoted himself completely to prayers. When other children asked him to play, he said to them, “Allah has not sent me for playing in the world.” He spoke Kalima (profession of faith) as early as the age of two and a half yers. Those who heard him pray at that age were truly astonished.