7/30/2019 Bawa's Brief Encounters

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Bawas Brief Encounters

I have met the following pious people, but some very briefly: Pir Karam Shah al-Azhari, Mawlana

Shah Ahmad Nurani, Mawlana Abd al-Sattar Niazi, Mawlana Inayat Allah Qadri (Sangla Hill), Mawlana Rihan

Riza Khan Barelwi, Pir Abu al-Kamal Barq Naushahi, Pir Harun Rashid (Mohra Sharif), Pir Sayyid Tahir Ala

al-Din Gilani, Khwaja Muhammad Masum (Mohri Sharif), Pir Sayyid Mustafa Ashrafi (Kuchaha Sharif), Pir

Sayyid Barakat Ahmad Chisti (Jalalpur), Mawlana Ahmad Said Kazmi (Multan), Mufti Abd al-Qayyum

Hazarawi, Sayyid Munawwar Husayn Shah, Sayyid Khurashid Husayn (Alipur Sharif), Sayyid Bilal Chishti

(Ajmer Sharif), Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Asad Madani (Deoband), Pir Ghulam Habib Naqshbandi

(Chakwal), Sayyid Muhammad Madani Mian (Kucuhcha Sharif), Sayyid Muhammad Hishami Mian (Kucuhcha

Sharif), Habib Ali Jifri (Dar al-Mustafa, Tarim, Yemen), Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqubi (Syria), Shaykh

Hisham al-Rifai (Kuwait), Shaykh Yusuf Islam, Shaykh Bu Bakr Ba Shuaib, Pir Maruf Husayn (Bradford) ,

Sufi Muhammad Abd Allah (Birmingham), Pir Abd al-Latif (Bangaldesh), Pir Abd al-Majid Qadri

(Bangladesh), Shaykh Mahmud Rashid Effendi (Turkey), Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Bukhari Naqshbandi

(Madinah Sharif), Sayyid Abd al-Rahman Faud (Madinah Sharif), Shaykh Muhammad Sulayman (Madinah

Sharif), Sufi Muhammad Aslam Naqshbandi (Blackburn), Pir Muhammad Yusuf Chishti (Blackburn), Professor

Muhammad Tahir al-Qadri, Mawlana Fazal al-Rahman (Madinah Sharif), Sultan Faiz al-Hasan (Sultan Bahu),

Sayyid Manzur Shah (Sahiwal), Mawlana Ghulam Ali Okrawi, Mawlana Maqsud Qadri (Khatib, Data Darbar),

Dr Bashir Ahmad Siddiqi, Dr Zafar Iqbal Nuri, Sahibzada Muhammad Naqshband (Pakpatan), Sayyid Irfan

Shah Mashadi, Shaykh Bashir Uthman Bashir (Madinah Sharif), Shaykh Ba Baker as-Sudani, Shaykh Abdal

Hakim Murad. From the above list the most memorable meetings took place with Mawlana Said Ahmad

Kazmi (Madinah Sharif at Mawlana Zias residence), Habib Ali Jifri (Manchester), Dr Nuri (at our house in

Bury) and Sayyid Abd al-Rahman Faud (Madinah Sharif). In addition I have met a number of intoxicated

mystics (madhjubs) whose names I do not know and did not ask.