The Shrine of Meher Ali Shah is a 20th-century Sufi shrine that serves as the tomb of the Peer

Meher Ali Shah Meher Ali Shah ( ur, پیر مہر على شاه‬; 14 April 1859 – May 1937), was a Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet from Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan) belonging to the Chishti order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar lea ...

, an early 20th-century Sufi scholar of the

Chisti The Chishtī Order ( fa, ''chishtī'') is a tariqa, an order or school within the mystic Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam. The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and openness. It began with Abu Ishaq Shami in Chisht, a ...

order, who was also a leader of the anti- Ahmadiya movement. The shrine is located within the

Islamabad Capital Territory The Islamabad Capital Territory ( ur, , translit=Vafāqī Dār-alhakūmat) is the only federal territory of Pakistan. Located between the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it includes the country's capital city of Islamabad. The terr ...

, in the village of

Golra Sharif Golra Sharif ( ur, ) is a town situated near the Margalla Hills in the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, at about above sea level, from the ancient city of Taxila. It is known for the Mausoleum of Meher Ali Shah that yearly attracts thous ...

. Nowadays, Golra Sharif is widely known for one of its custodians (

Sajjada nashin The ''Sajjāda nashīn'' ( fa, سجاده نشین; lit. "ne whosits t aprayer mat") is a term of Persian origin, used chiefly within the Sufi traditions of South Asia referring to the successor or hereditary administrator of a Sufi master who ...

) Pir Syed Naseer Uddin Naseer Gilani. The shrine's longest-serving Sajjada nashin was Peer Syed Shah Abdul Haq Gilani, the younger son of Babuji, who took care of the shrine for approximately 46 years (from 1974 to his death in July 2020). Presently, the shrine is managed by the

heirs Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officia ...

of both, Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Gilani and Syed Shah Abdul Haq Gilani.

Location

The mausoleum is situated in the village of

, foothills of Margalla in Sector E-11, in the

. The shrine is situated an altitude of about above sea level.

Construction

Peer Mehr Ali Shah died on 11 May 1937 and was succeeded by Babuji. The construction of the mausoleum took nearly twenty years to be fully completed. For this purpose, marble was brought from the Makrana mines in

Jodhpur State Kingdom of Marwar, also known as the Jodhpur State under the British, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1226 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. It was established in Pali by Rao Siha, possibly a m ...

References

External links

The Shrine's official website''Mehr-e-Munir'' by Dr Muhammad Fadil Khan
{{Cultural heritage sites in Islamabad Capital Territory , state=expanded Sufi shrines in Pakistan Mausoleums in Pakistan Sufism in Islamabad Cultural heritage sites in Islamabad Shrines in Pakistan

Location

Construction

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