The Early Years
Sayed Nafees Al-Hussaini belonged to a known Sufi Syed dynasty, Gesu Daraz, which is renowned in the sub-continent due to the famous Sufi saint Khawaja Muhammad Gesudraz of Gulbarga. Syed Nafees shah sahib was born at village Gadiala district Sialkot on 11 March 1933. He studied at Faisalabad and passed Matriculation examination from city Muslim high school there with distinction. He passed intermediate in 1950 from Govt. college Lyalpur (now Faisalabad). Shah sahib shifted to Lahore and studied Urdu and Persian languages at Oriental College, Lahore.
He learn art of writing in Hindi script as well. He could read and write almost all languages of sub-continent in their particular script including Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi and Gurmukhi languages. On literary side he knows English, Persian, Arabic and Punjabi languages and produced literature in all these languages.
Having passed Matriculation he pursued studies set out to learn art of calligraphy from his father. His father Syed Muhammad Ashraf Ali Syed ul Qalm and his father in law Hakeem Syed Naik Alam were great calligraphers of their times and Arabic calligraphy was their main forte.
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