Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah

Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah (1878–1951) was a Sufist scholar considered a Waliullah or Sufist saint. He graduated from Aligarh University in India. A member of the Chishti Order of Sufi, his work combined merits of Islamic scholarship and modern knowledge.

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He was a close associate of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and the freedom fighters of India, Muhammad Ali Johar and Shaukat Ali, Abdul Qadir, Muhammad Iqbal, Justice Shah Din, Akbar Allahabadi, Abdul Kalam Azad.

He was the author of several books and articles in English, his masterpiece being Sirr-e-Dilbaran, an alphabetical encyclopedia of Sufi terminology Sufism, now available in English.

He died in 1951 on the 9th day of Zilhajj Hajj (the pilgrimage) in Makkah, and was buried in Arafat, the prayer ground of Hajj. He was a great spiritual leader who backed the movement for Pakistan, and strongly supported the Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He predicted the creation of Pakistan as early as 1938 through divine visions, and some of his predictions about the future are given in his books and discourses. He was a great lover of The Prophet and stated that the main purpose of Hajj is to visit the Blessed Messenger of God. In fact, before his final departure for Hajj from Karachi, he had told some of his disciples that if the Prophet gave him permission to stay, he will not come back.

He was succeeded by four khulafa (caliphs/successors): Maulana Umar Bhai (Bombay); Shah Shahidullah Faridi (Karachi, Pakistan, originally from the UK); Captain Wahid Baksh Rabbani (Bahawalpur, Pakistan), and Maulana Abdus Salam (India).

His discourses were compiled by his khalifas Shah Shahidullah Faridi and Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani under the title "Tarbiyyat-ul-Ushaq" (Training of the Lovers) and published in English and Urdu.

Spiritual lineage
  1. Hazrat Muhammad
  2. Imam Ali al Murtaza
  3. Ḥasan al Baṣrī
  4. Abdul Wāḥid bin Zaid
  5. Fuḍayl ibn 'Iyāḍ
  6. Ibrāhīm bin Adham
  7. Ḥudhayfah al Mar'ashī
  8. Abū Ḥubayrah al Baṣrī
  9. Mumshād Dīnwarī
  10. Abu Ishaq Shamī
  11. Abu Ahmad Abdal
  12. Abu Muhammad Muhtaram
  13. Abu Yusuf bin Sa`man
  14. Qutbuddin Mawdud Chishtī
  15. Haji Sharif Zindani
  16. Usman Harooni
  17. Mu'īnuddīn Chishtī
  18. Qutbuddin Bakhtyar Kaki
  19. Farīduddīn Mas'ūd
  20. Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
  21. Shamsuddin Turk Panipati
  22. Jalaluddin Kabir ul Awliya
  23. Abdul Haqq Raudolvi
  24. Ahmad Arif Raudolvi
  25. Muhammad Arif Raudovi
  26. Abdul Quddus Gangohi
  27. Jalaluddin Thanesari
  28. Nizamuddin Balkhi
  29. Abu Said Gangohi
  30. Muhibullah Ilahabadi
  31. Mohammadi Fayyaz
  32. Muhammadi Makki
  33. Shah Izzuddin
  34. Abdul Hadi Amrohi
  35. Abdul Bari Amrohi
  36. Haji Abdur Rahim Wilayati
  37. Noor Muhammad Jhinjhawani
  38. Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
  39. Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi
  40. Syed Waris Hasan
  41. Syed Shah Muhammad Zauqi
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References
  • "The Author's Spiritual Guide" in Islamic Sufism by Captain Wahid Baksh Rabbani, 1995, Justice Akbar Academy, Pakistan.
  • "Shajra Tayyiba" by Alhajj Shah Shahidullah Faridi, including the Wird of the Chishti Sabri order. Privately printed in 1986.
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