Shah Inayat Qadri (; – 1728) was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi scholar, saint and philosopher of the Qadri Shattari silsila (lineage). He mostly wrote his philosophical works in Persian. Shah Inayat Qadiri is famous as the spiritual guide of the universal Punjabi poets Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah.
Name Baba is an honorific term used as a sign of respect. It is a term similar to "father" or "wise old man".Platts, John T. (John Thompson). A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884. Shah is another honorific referring to a king.Yarshater, Ehsan Persia or Iran, Persian or Farsi , Iranian Studies, vol. XXII, no. 1 (1989) Inayat is an Islamic first name. Qadiri and Shatari are Islamic surname for the members of the Qadiriyya and Shattariyya tariqahs, which are Sufi mystical order.Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. "The Special Sufi Paths (Tariqas)". Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life. New York: Columbia UP, 2007. 86–96. See Appendix II: The Rapidness. First published in 1964.
Life Early life and education Shah Inayat was born in Kasur in 1643 (circa), into a Punjabi Muslim family belonging to the Arain tribe.
He was a Sufi scholar and activist associated with the Qadiri-Shattari silsila (lineage). Shah Inayat was the son of Mawlawi Pir Mohammad of Kasur, who was an Imam.
Shah Inayat and his disciples He was the student of Shah Raza and teacher of Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah.
Persecution and migration He used to work in Kasur, but because of the animosity of the city's ruler, Nawab Hussain Khan, he was forced to migrate to Lahore.
Work Shah Inayat is remembered as a preacher, a religious scholar, a philosopher and a saint. A brief biographical note on him was published in 1984 in Lahore. Shah Inayat was a scholar of mysticism. He wrote mostly in Persian and Punjabi. His works include: Dasturul Amal Islahul Amal Lataif-e-Ghaibya Ishartul Taliban
See also List of Sufi saints
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References
External links Dastur ul Amal on Google Books. Chopra R. M. (1999) Great Sufi Poets of the Punjab, Iran Society, Calcutta.