Pirzada Ghulam Haider: (17.12.1879 – 23.08.1951)
(Shrine is in “Faqeer-Khana Sadaat compound”, Besides Eidgah, Bahawalpur Road, Miani Saheb Graveyard, Lahore)

1944 (Few years after Saintly life – Nawab Rafaqat Ali khan & followers visited to praise him at ”Takiya”(Qalander Khana) near Family Graveyard, Basti Shaikh Darwesh (2nd from Right).		Shrine – Miani Sahib, Lahore

1928 – Group photo of Revenue Deptt, Jalandhar City. (on chairs – 2nd from right)

Pirzada Ghulam Haider was the eldest son of Hakeem Ghulam Qadir Asar and was born to his first wife ‘Syeda Shah Begum’ (The sister of “Mian Fateh Muhammad”, the then Sajjadah Nasheen of Hazrat Shah Noor Jamal, Sulehran Sharif, Hoshiyarpur). He never married and lived a saintly life.

Qualifications & Career

• Matriculation from Govt Islamia High School Jalandhar City.
• Intermediate from Islamia College Jalandhar.
• Passed the Examination in Revenue Deptt & joined as Naeb Tehsildar.
• Was serving as “Tehsildar” upto 1935.
• Used to wear western style dress in routine, but faced a life turning incident.

Life Turning Incident; which happened in 1935; turned over a new leaf and after leaving the job, became a saint. Detail is that an important member of his family, who was facing difficulties and problems in his job, approached his father Ghulam Qadir Asar, for help. Ghulam Qadir sb went to a saint named SaeeN Deenay Shah Majzoob for special prayer, away from Jalandhar, who possessed miraculous powers. Pirzada Ghulam Haider was also accompanied with him. Ghulam Haider did not believe and showed his reluctance that a simple poor looking person, who was living in a jungle, could do any good for them.  The saint caught the eyes of Ghulam Haider and instructed his father to take him to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri in Ajmer Sharif. He also assured that his work would be done with the help of Allah, accordingly.

As the command had been given, Ghulam Haider turned over a new leaf after reaching Ajmer Sharif. He left the worldly life and acquired saintly life. His spiritual training was completed by a special devotee of Ghulam Qadir Asar in due course.

Spiritual Turn in Life; after the death of his father in 1937, Pirzada Ghulam Haider ran the “Silsila-e-Naushahi Barqandazi Azmi” till his death in 1951. His pedigree of Tareeqat reaches Saaeen Deeney Shah Majzoob (resident of Bhalanah & Kapurthala State – Jalandhar), Devotee of Baba Qasim Ali Araein behari puri, Devotee of Haji Syed Noor Muhammad Behari puri, Devotee of Syed Ibrahim Behari puri Kapurthala state. This linage proceeded to Naushah Gunj Bukhsh through Hazrat Shaikh Abdur Rehman Bharri wala.

Many years before the division of India, he had a chance to visit Lahore where he asked his devotees about their graveyard.They led him to Miani Saheb graveyard, where he selected a peaceful corner for his grave (His present grave place is the same one, the corner of “Pirzada family graves”, with in the boundry of “Faqeer Khana family graves” and just beside the Eidgah/Janaazgaah on Bahawalpur Road). Moreover, he told them that India is going to be divided, so bury me here. He also told them to bury him (2^nd time) near the steps of his mother when Muslims will return back to India as conqueror, b’caz all the deceased family members were buried in Basti Shaikh Darwesh and Basti Danishmandan, India (before partition).

According to his ‘will’, he was buried there and the shoes of his guide (Murshid) were placed near his head in grave.  As none of the descendants of Pirzada Family showed interest in Piri-Muridi (devotedness & Sufism). His brother, Pirzada Abdul Hameed, in the presence of all family members (including Syed Mushtaq Ahmad Hoshiarpuri Sb and all his sons + all brothers of Pirzada Ghulam Haider) announced the discontinuation of the Silsila.

Surprising Dream Incident; on the very next day of funeral of Pirzada Ghulam Haider, Mian Bakhsh Elahi (Chairman Crescent group) one of the friends of Pirzada Hameed came from Lyallpur (Faisalabad) and told that Haider Shah had came in his dream and gifted a shoe which was placed near his head on the bed (who have spiritual eye, can understand it well).

It was one from the pair of the shoes that his devotee Maai GomaaN had taken with her, just one day prior, after the death of Pirzada Ghulam Haider. (Maai GomaaN was an old lady from the family of Dhareediye Qawwal and had sworn long ago as devotee of Pirzada Ghulam Haider and had taken his shoes as memorial for her.

The family of Dhreediye Qawwal and their fore-fathers had been devotees of Pirzada Ghulam Haider’s incesters since the time of Haji Baba, who was ancestors of Fateh Ali/ Mubarak Ali Qawwal and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan).  As none from the family of Pirzada Ghulam Haider showed any interest in promoting the “Silsila” and had involved in worldly Degrees and other matters, it is understood that perhaps it was the sign of diverting this “Silsila” to them.

Non-Awareness; in 2014, I myself contacted  Mr Riaz Masood son of Mian Bakhsh Elahi (Elder son Mr Maqbool Elahi had died in the year 2007) and Mr Muhammad Arshad (Nephew of Mian Bakhsh Elahi) in Faisalabad and tried to know details about the spiritual involvement of any family person on which,           I came to know that Mian Bakhsh Elahi died in 1977 while the next generation is not aware of any such incident / involvement.

Another effort made by the writer was to find out Munshi Ali Bakhsh (lived in Multan) remained seriously involved in this Silsila in the past years and being a special devotee might have been a candidate for the inheritance of this chain. But it was revealed that Munshi Ali Bakhsh had already passed away in 1980. Despite efforts, I have not been able to make any contact with his children (or son Akber) and any other relatives.

Silsila-e-khilafat & “Peerzaadgan”;  In short, Silsila-e-Khilafat of the Nobel family of “Khanwada-e-Tartoosiah, Qadiryah, Naushahiyah, Barqandaziyah, Azamiyah” which had been an integral part of the family of “Peerzaadgan”,  have left no traces after the death of last Khalifa in 1951. Today nobody is aware of “to whom it had been transferred & where it stands today” and is a mystery till today.

About the Grave;

The verse inscribed on the shrine of Pirzada Ghulam Haider:

کیا صوفی و ملا کو خبر میرے جنوں کی

اُن کا سرِ دامن بھی ابھی چاک نہیں ہے