azrat Habib ALi Shah Hayderabadi (rh)
Hazrat Habib ALi Shah Hayderabadi was the Disciple and
Khalifa of Hazrat Hazrat Hafiz Mohammed Ali Khairabad r.a. The shrine
of Hazrat Habib ALi Shah Sahib is in Hayderabad,India.
Hazrath Habib Ali Shah RA was born at Hyderabad, Deccan, India. He
was the fourth son of a philanthropic billionaire, Nawab Ahmad Yar Khan
Muhyud Dawlah. His birth was the miraculous prediction made by Hazrath
Khwaja Hafiz Muhammad Ali Shah RA of Khairabad, India, who made
regular spiritual and educational visits to Hyderabad, that a spiritual
child will be born in the Nawab's house. Although the wife of the
Nawab had passed child-bearing age, a child was born.
When this child grew up he renounced his title and an estate worth
several billion rupees and entered the realms of true faqiri. He showed
his ameeri in later life when he hardly had any material possessions
and yet during his trips to the blessed city of Ajmer Shareef he was
seen distributing countless rupees to the needy and indigent
The city of Khairabad was a centre of learning and the Khanqah was a
popular focal point for the training of ulema. He received his
spiritual training here under Hazrath Khwaja Hafiz Mohamed Ali Shah RA
who was the Shaikh and teacher at the centre. Before long, the Shaikh
appointed him as a Kutub of Kokan and instructed him to serve the
community of the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai (Bombay).
He left for Bombay where he established a centre in Dockyard Road,
Majgown, which still exists today, perpetuating the legacy of selfless
service for which its founder was famous. Hazrath Habib Ali's entire
life speaks of profound spirituality, unblemished service and countless
miracles. His spiritual lineage or Silsila was the Chistia, Qadiria as
well as various other orders. He not only made mureeds (disciples) but
trained them to serve as khulafas (spiritual successors). He sent his
renowned khulafas to the different parts of the world with the specific
instructions that they provide selfless service to humanity and that
they propagate Islam in its pristine purity, restraining from indulging
in futile debates and vain arguments.
Hazrath Khwaja Habib Ali Shah RA passed away in Bombay on 6 Zil Haj 1322 (1904).
It was decided that his body be taken to Hyderabad by train so that he
could be buried there. The normally twenty-four hour train journey
took three days because of the multitudes of people that gathered at
every major station along the route and insisted on offering Janaza
prayers. Eventually, on 10 Zil Haj, his body was laid to rest next to the mosque in the city of his birth
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