Khwaja Muhammad Usman Damani ( ur, ) was a prominent

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scholar and

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tariqah of the 19th century (1828–1897) in South Asia (present day Pakistan).

Early life

He was born to Mawlana Moosa Jan in 1244 AH at Loni town in the Dera Ismail Khan district, present day Pakistan. His father belonged to the Damani tribe and his mother belonged to the family of Khwaja Bandanawaz Sayyid Muhammad Gesudaraz Gulberga (Ibdia).Jalwa Gah-e-Dost (Urdu) 2nd edition (2008) by Khwaja Muhammad Tahir Bakhshi
He was a khalifa and successor of

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, and was the successor of khanqah Mussa Zai Sharif in Dera Ismail Khan.

Work

His shaykh awarded him with Ijazah (Khilafat) of eight Sufi orders, namely

Mujaddidi, Qadri, Chishti, Suhrawardi, Shattari, Madaria, Kibrawiya and

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.Short Biography in Urdu by Mukhtar Ahmed Khokhar
His letters are published in a collection named ''Tuhfa Zahidia'' with an Urdu translation. In the last years of his life, he did not take the oath of allegiance from newcomers and referred them to one of his two leading Khulafa, namely Khwaja Sirajuddin Naqshbandi his son and Sayyad Laal Shah Hamdani. He died on Tuesday 22

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1314 AH (26 January 1897) and was buried in Mussa Zai Sharif alongside the grave of his Shaykh

. His

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prayer was led by his son Khwaja Sirajuddin Naqshbandi.

Chain of succession

Khwaja Muhammad Usman Damani belonged to the Mujaddidi order of Sufism, which is the main branch of

Sufi tariqah. His spiritual lineage goes to Muhammad, through Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, the Mujaddid of eleventh Hijri century.

Khulafa

:* Khwaja Sirajuddin Naqshbandi, his son and successor (d.1915) :* Sayyad Laal Shah Hamdani (d.1896) :* Mawlana Shirazi :* Abdur-Rahman Bahadur Kilmi (d.1922)

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20040421095419/http://bagharshareef.com/
Jalwa Gah-e-Dost (Urdu) 2nd edition (2008) by Khwaja Muhammad Tahir Bakhshi

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