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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUJADDIDYAH ORDER 311descendant of his renowned father, he was a paragbn of Virtueand most celebrated for the beauty of his soul.Bom on 11th Shawwal l007/27th April, 1599, he readthe first few books from his elder brother Khwaja MuhammadSadiq and then studied at the feet of his father and ShaikhMuhammad Tahir of Lahore. He committed the holy Qur’anto his heart within a brief period of three months and, likethe reputed author of the Sharh Waqayah, used to learn thewritings of his father by heart while copying them. Hesucceeded his father after the death of the latier. Thereafterhe went for pilgrimage and stayed for a long time in Medinabefore his return to India. The rest of his life he spent inguidance pf the people and teaching Tafslr Baidawi, Mishk&t,Hidayah, 'Azodi arid Talmh to his disciples.Shaikh Muta$ b. Abdullah Qaz/ani writes in the Zailur-Rushahatthat he was, like his father, one among the signs ofGod who illuminated the world and dispelled the darkness ofignorance and blameworthy innovations. Thousands of hisdisciples were helped by, him to attain spiritual perfectionand the knowledge of God. The number of persons who tookoaths of allegiance to him is stated to be nine hundred thousandof which seven thousand qualified as his spiritual descendants.Of these one was Shaikh Habib Ullah Bukhar'i who rose to theposition of most revered mystic Shaikh of his time in Khurasanand Transoxiana, spread the light of sunnah in Bukhara andthe surrounding lands and guided four thousand among hisdisciples to attain the perfection of spirit enabling them toimpart instruction to 01 hers in the disciplines of divinity.The letters of Shaikh M asQm were compiled in threevolumes and like the Maktubut of his father, are a repository ofwisdom and intricacies of mysticism,, serving as a key to theletters of his father.He died on the 9th Rab‘l-ul-Awwal, 1079/7th August,1668, at Sirhind where his grave is still visited by a large numberof people.’