Monday, 1 December 2014

Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani (1170-1267)


History of Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani (1170-1267)
Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani was a Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order (tariqa). His full name was Abu Muhammad Bahauddin Zakariya. He was a Hashmi from the aulad of Hadhrat Asad Ibn Hashim.
Sheikh Baha-ud-Din Zakariya was born at Kot Kehror (Karor Lal Eason), a town of the Layyah District near MultanPunjabPakistan, around 1170. His grandfather Shah Kamaluddin Ali Shah Qureshi arrived in Multan from Mecca en route to Khwarezm where he stayed for a short while. In Tariqat he was the disciple of renowned Sufi master Shaikh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi who awarded himKhilafat only after 17 days of stay at his Khanqah in Baghdad. For fifteen years he went from place to place to preach Islam and after his wanderings Bahawal Haq settled in Multan in 1222.

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