Pir Meher Ali Shah
| Meher Ali Shah | |
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Pir Meher Ali Shah in his last days
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| Religion | Islam, specifically the Chishti Sufi order |
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| Born |
14 April 1859 Golra Sharif, British India (Present Day Pakistan) |
| Died | May 1937 (aged 78) Golra Sharif, British India |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Golra Sharif |
| Title | Pir |
| Predecessor | Hazrat Khawaja Shams-ud-din Sialvi |
| Successor | Pir Syed Ghulam Mohiyyud Din Gillani |
Meher Ali Shah (Urdu: پیر مہر على شاه) (born 1 Ramadan 1275 A.H., i.e., 14 April 1859 in Golra Sharif, died in May 1937) was a Sufi scholar from Pakistan belonging to the Chishti order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar upholding the position of Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi, and a leader of the anti-Ahmadiyya movement. He wrote several books, most notably Saif e Chishtiyai ("The Sword of the Chishti Order"), a polemical work criticizing the Ahmadiyya movement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Shah was a disciple and Khalifa of Shams-ud-din Sialvi in the Silsila-e-Chishtia Nizamiyah. His biography, Meher-e-Muneer, records that he was also made a khalifa by Haji Imdadullah Muhaajir Makki, when he visited the latter in Mecca.
Shah was a supporter of Ibn Arabi's ideology of Wahdat-ul-Wujood but he made a distinction between the creation and the creator (as did Ibn Arabi). He also wrote explaining the "Unity of Being" doctrine of Ibn Arabi.
Like his comrade Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad, he was an authority on Ibn Arabi and his 37-volume masterpiece The Meccan Illuminations (Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya).
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