Syed Khalid Hasan Shah was an Islamic

Islam

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 religious leader, a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi

Naqshbandi

Naqshbandi is one of the major Sufi spiritual orders of Sufi Islam. It is considered to be a "Potent" order.The Naqshbandi order is over 1,300 years old, and is active today...

 Sufism

Sufism

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Birth

He was born in Allo Mahar

Allo Mahar

Alo Mohar, also known as Allo Mahar Sharif, is a village and union council of Daska Tehsil, Sialkot District in Punjab, Pakistan. The village is located at 32°23'60N 74°25'0E and lies located 8 km to the west of Daska and 15 km southwest of the district capital - Sialkot...

 Sharif, Pakistan

Pakistan

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. His father wasSyed Faiz ul-Hasan Shah and his grandfather Pir Syed Amin Shah

Pir Syed Amin Shah

Pir Syed Muhammad Amin Shah,better known as the Pir of Allo Mahar Sharif, was an Islamic religious leader in the Punjab, Pakistan. Because of his saintly character and piety, he commanded great respect and influence among the Muslims of the South Asia. Hazratt Syed Amin Shah was a Sufi Saint of...

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Both his maternal and paternal grandfathers were sheikh

Sheikh

Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...

s in the Naqshbandi and Mudadi orders respectively. Ultimately he could trace his forefathers back to Muhammad

Muhammad

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 and was thus a Sayyid

Sayyid

Sayyid is an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husain ibn Ali, sons of the prophet's daughter Fatima Zahra and his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib.Daughters of sayyids are given the titles Sayyida,...

through Imam al-Husayn

Husayn

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. As a child, the young Khalid Hasan showed a propensity towards spirituality.

Education

His father sent him to school to study secular knowledge during the day, and in the evening he studied Islam at the local maktab

Maktab

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, where he learned the basics of Islamic law

Fiqh

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, jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

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, the Hadith

Hadith

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, and Qur'anic exegesis. He passed a B.A. at Murray College

Murray College

Government Murray College Sialkot , formerly known as Scotch Mission College, is located in Sialkot in the Punjab province of Pakistan.-History:...

, Sialkot. Syed Khalid Hasan was a spiritual leader of the Naqshbandia Mujadadia Aminia

Naqshbandia Mujadadia Aminia

The Naqshbandi Mujadadia Aminia Golden Chain is a lineage spiritual masters of the Naqshbandi sub-order related to each other going back to the Prophet Muhammad....

 golden chain. In keeping with the traditions of the then society, this young sufi did not attend any formal school for his education and training. He received his elementary education and lessons in Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 from his father, logic and philosophy from his grandfather.

Religious career

He delivered many lectures all over Pakistan, and struggled for the establishment of Islamic law in Pakistan. He held the seat of his father as a debater in 1984 and worked hard for eight years.

Family

He had one son and two daughters. His son Syed Murtaza Amin Shah

Syed Murtaza Amin Shah

Syed Murtaza Amin Shah is a Muslim writer, poet, politician and religious scholar from Pakistan. He is fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, English and uses an advanced level of Persian. He is also member of the Pakistan National Assembly since 2008 for the NA-113 Sialkot constituency.-Family background:He is...

is also an orator of Islam lecturing in different parts of world.