Shah Inayat Qadiri Explained

Shah Inayat Qadiri
Native Name Lang:pa
Birth Place:Kasur, Punjab, Mughal Empire
Death Date: (aged 84 or 85)
Death Place:Lahore, Lahore Subah, Punjab, Mughal Empire
Philosophy:Sufism
Resting Place:Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Influences:Baba Farid
Religion:Islam
Sufi Order:Qadri Shattari
Influenced:Bulleh Shah
Waris Shah

Shah Inayat Qadri Shattari (Panjabi; Punjabi: {{nq|شاہ عنایت قادری, also romanized as Enayat Shah;  - 1728) was a Punjabi Sufi scholar, saint and philosopher of the Qadri Shattari silsila (lineage).[1] He mostly wrote his philosophical works in Persian.[2] Shah Inayat Qadiri is famous as the spiritual guide of the universal Punjabi poets Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah.

Name

Baba is an honorific term used as a sign of respect. It is a term similar to "father" or "wise old man".[3] Shah is another honorific referring to a king.[4] Inayat is an Islamic first name. Qadiri and Shatari are Islamic surname for the members of the Qadiriyya and Shattariyya tariqahs, which are Sufi mystical order.[5] [6]

Life

Early life and education

Shah Inayat was born in Kasur in 1643 (circa), into a family belonging to the Arain tribe.

He was a Sufi scholar and activist associated with the Qadiri-Shattari silsila (lineage). Shah Inayat was the son of Mawlawi Pir Mohammad of Kasur, who was an Imam.[7]

Shah Inayat and his disciples

He was the student of Shah Raza and teacher of Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah.

Persecution and migration

He used to work in Kasur, but because of the animosity of the city's ruler, Nawab Hussain Khan, he was forced to migrate to Lahore.[8]

Work

Shah Inayat is remembered as a preacher, a religious scholar, a philosopher and a saint. A brief biographical note on him was published in 1984 in Lahore. Shah Inayat was a scholar of mysticism. He wrote mostly in Persian and Punjabi. His works include:

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mian Akhlaq Ahmad . Tazkera Hazrat Shah Inayat Qadiri Shattari . 1984.
  2. Book: Ahmed, Ishtiaq . Pre-Partition Punjab's Contribution to Indian Cinema . 2023-06-16 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-000-90590-8 . en.
  3. Platts, John T. (John Thompson). A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.
  4. Yarshater, Ehsan Persia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, Iranian Studies, vol. XXII, no. 1 (1989)
  5. Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. "The Special Sufi Paths (Tariqas)". Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life. New York: Columbia UP, 2007. 86–96.
  6. Book: Shah , Idries . Idries Shah . . . 1999 . 0-86304-074-8. See Appendix II: The Rapidness. First published in 1964.
  7. Book: Kumar, Raj . Encyclopaedia Of Untouchables : Ancient Medieval And Modern . 2008 . Gyan Publishing House . 978-81-7835-664-8 . en.
  8. Book: Kumar, Raj . Encyclopaedia Of Untouchables : Ancient Medieval And Modern . 2008 . Gyan Publishing House . 978-81-7835-664-8 . en.