Pir Meher Ali Shah
Meher Ali Shah (Urdu: پیر مﮩرعلى شاه ) was born 14 April 1859 (1 Ramadan, 1275 A.H.) in Golra Sharif, which is located midway between Rawalpindi and Islamabad, in present-day Pakistan. The time just before his birth saw the Indian Rebellion of 1857 fought between the British and the sepoys allied with seven of the Princely states. He is renowned as a Sufi saint, a great Hanafi scholar upholding the position of Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi, and especially for being at the forefront of the anti-Ahmadiyya movement. He wrote several books, most notably Saif e Chishtiyai, (The Sword of the Chishtis), a polemical work regarding the unorthodoxy and the heresy of the Ahmadiyya movement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Read more about Pir Meher Ali Shah: Early Childhood, Early Education, Marriage, Works, Sufi of The Chishti Order, Supporter of Wahdat-ul-Wujood (The Unity of Existence), Anti-Ahmadiyya Preaching
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