(Credit: Special thanks to Baba Sajan Koti, DAV College, Jalandhar, India.)

Mian Abdul Ghafoor  (Qadri, Naushahi, Barqandaazi): (1690 – 1774 AD)
(Shrine in Basti Danishmand, Jalandhar, India)

One of his ancestors, Maulana Ibrahim Soharwardi Danishmand-1, was a devotee and Khalifa of Shaikhul Shyookh Shahabuddin Soharwardi. His father Mian Dil Muhammad had acquired spiritual knowledge from Hazrat Shaikh Darwesh in lineage of Soharwardiya. But Mian Ghafoor adopted lineage of Qadri Naushahi.  How did it happen?   It is an interesting story.

The Event: Hazrat Hafiz Syed Qaayem Naushahi Barq-andaaz used to visit Jalandhar from Pak Pattan with his companions for travelling and recreation. Once on his visit, he was taking rest under the shade of a tree, in Basti Danishmand. Meanwhile, grandfather of Mian Ghafoor passed by and looked at Hafiz Sahib with his spiritual inner eye and told the people of his area not to let their boys go there because a saint was sitting under the tree.

His grandfather kept him limited to home. However, after some time, he felt pity for him and released. Just as he found freedom, he rushed to Hafiz Barq-andaaz and sat in his meeting and entered the fold of his devotees. At last, grandfather invited Hafiz Sahib to his home and served him devotedly. Then Hafiz Sahib left for Pak Pattan. Mian Ghafoor already listened that ‘Urs’ is being held after few days, so he reached there directly at Naushehra Mughlaan, Gujrat (Where Urs of “Hazrat Muhammad Suchyaar” was in progress). He received beneficence from the eyes of Hafiz Sahib and returned back to Jalandhar.

He did not waste any moment of acquiring beneficence. At last, the beneficence of “Suharwardia” gradually reduced and the beneficence of lineage of “Qadri Naushahi” captured the family of Mian Ghafoor Sahib. Therefore, lineage of “Naushahi Sachyaari Barq-andaazi” kept spreading in Jalandhar far and wide as is evident in the Shajra-e-Murshadyah. He had done a great work in piety and mysticism spiritual exercise. He kept fasting life time and worshiping all the night for about seventeen years. He used to travel frequently and would spread his beneficence among human beings without discrimination of travel or staying at home.

Nawab Khan Firdausi of Bahawalpur was his devotee and also donated money for the construction of shrine of Hazrat Muhammad Sachyaar. He stayed at Gujrat for two months and returned back to Jalandhar after getting the work completed. His spiritual guide Hafiz Syed Qaayem Ali Barq-andaaz  died in 1742 AD. Therefore, offerings were presented to his son Syed Ghulam Rasool and the construction was started by Mian Ghafoor Sahib. He returned to Jalandhar from Pak Pattan after the construction work was completed.

His spiritual descendant was Mian Mirza Ali Khan from the Pathans of Basti Danishmand, whose ancestors had been the devotees of Hazrat Darwesh of lineage of Soharwardiya.