Hazrat Pir Syed Mehr ‘Ali Shah of Golra Sharif
(to be referred to hereinafter simply as “Hadrat”) was a descendent, on his father’s side, of Hazrat Syedna Ghaus- e- Azam Shaikh ‘ Abdul Qadir Jilani in the 25th generation, and of the Holy Prophet of Islam through Syedna Hasan ibn ‘Ali in the 38th generation. On the side of his mother, he was descended from Hazrat Ghaus-e-Azam in the 24th generation and from the Holy Prophet through Syedna Husain ibn ‘Ali in the 37th generation.

Two of Hazrat’s ancestors,Pir Syed Roshan Din Shah and Pir Syed Rasul Shah in the year 1211 A.H. by the then head of Syedna Ghaus-e-Azam’s shrine at Baghdad (Iraq), Hazrat Syed habib-e-Mustafa Ibn Syed Qasim Qadiri. This testimonial is preserved in original in Golra Sharif’s shrine records, and its text is reproduced below.

“in point of ancestry and lineage, these two gentlemen, Pir Syed Roshan Din Shah and Pir Syed Rasul Din Shah, are the off-spring of Hazrat Syedna Shaikh ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani. In point of grace and blessedness, they are his true heirs and legatees, and I regard them as my own sons. Devotees of the exalted Qadiriyah Silsilah (chain) should therefore regard their hand as my hand and their word as my word.”

Hazrat Syed Pir Meher Ali Shah (R.A) was born on Monday, 1st Ramadan, 1275 A.H (14th April 1859 A.D) in Golra Sharif. The time before Hazrat’s birth saw the war of independence of 1857 being fought between the British and the Muslims.

Early Childhood:
Pir Meher Ali Shah (R.A) narrated himself that during his childhood, he used to feel uncomfortable in populated areas and found deserted places providing much serenity. Quite often, he said, he used to quietly leave the house at night after everyone else had gone to bed, and to spend much of the night wandering among the nearly bushes, trees and ravines. As he grew, he said, he started experiencing a feeling of such unusual heat within his body that he was sometimes compelled, even on cold winter nights, to bathe in the ice-cold canal water out in the open and also to rub pieces of it on his body. When he left his room late at night after finishing his studies, he used to experience the same kind of comfort from contact with the cold mountain air that a thirsty person normally derives from cool water at the height of summer.

Early Education
Hazrat received his early education of the Holy Quran at the Khankah and was given classes in Urdu and Persian in the local Madressah. Allah blessed Hazrat Pir Meher Ali Shah (R.A) with tremendous mind abilities. As soon as Hazrat completed his oral reading of Quran, the entire Holy Book became embedded in his memory without any conscious effort by him towards that end. He completed his intermediate level religious education here. His stay in this Madressah was for 2 –2 and(1/2) years. After completing his education at Angah at the age of 15 years, he decided to continue further studies in the United Provinces of India (U.P). Therefore, Hazrat Pir Meher Ali Shah Sahib, in 1290 A.H set out his quest for higher education, to different parts of India such as Kanpur, Aligarh, and Saharanpur Hazrat’s stay at Aligarh at the Madressah of Maulana Lutfullah of Aligarh was 21/2 years

Marraige
When Hazrat Pir Meher Ali Shah returned home after completing his studies, his marriage took place with the daughter of Syed Charagh Ali Shah who belonged to his respected mother’s family living in Hasan-Abdal Town, a few miles away from Golra.

Works
1. Tahqiq-ul-Haq Fi Kalima-tul-Haq (The Truth about Kalima-tul-Haq)
2. Shamsul Hidayah
3. Saif-e-Chishtiya
4. I’la Kalimatillah Fi Bayan-e-Wa Ma Uhilla Bihi Legharillah
5. AlFatuhat-us-Samadiyyah (Divine Bounties)
6. Tasfiah Mabain Sunni Wa Shi’ah
7. Fatawa-e-Mehria
8. Mulfuzaat-e-Mehria (Sayings of Meher Ali Shah)


As a Sufi
Pir Meher Ali Shah Sahib was a disciple and Khalifa of Hazrat Shams-ud-din in the Silsila-e-Chishtia Nizamiyah. In his biography, Meher e Muneer, records that he also received a Khilafat [i.e. was made a khalifa] by Hazrat Haji Imdadullah Muhaajir Makki, when he visited the latter in Mecca. Hajji Imdadullah advised him to return to India, where a great storm was about to rise against Islam, which Meher Ali Shah must crush. Haji Imdadullah was of course predicting the Qadiyani heresy.

1. Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa
2. Hazrat Ali Al-Murtaza
3. Hazrat Khwaja Hasan Basri
4. Hazrat Khwaja Abdul Wahid bin Zaid
5. Hazrat Khwaja Fazeel Ibn-e-Ayaaz
6. Hazrat Khwaja Sultan Ibrahim Adham
7. Hazrat Khwaja Sadeed-ud-din
8. Hazrat Khwaja Ameen-ud-din
9. Hazrat Khwaja Mumshaad
10. Hazrat Khwaja Abi Ishaq Shami Chishti
11. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Abi Ahmad Abdal Chishti
12. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Abi Muhammad Chishti
13. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nasir-ud-din Chishti
14. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Qutb-ud-din Maudud Chishti
15. Hazrat Khwaja Makhdum Haji Sharif
16. Hazrat Khwaja Usman Harooni
17. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Moin-ud-din Chishti of Ajmer Sharif
18. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Qutb-ud-din Bakhtiar Kaki
19. Hazrat Khwaja Baba Fareed-ud-din Ganjshakar
20. Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizaam-ud-din Awlia
21. Hazrat Khwaja Naseer-ud-din Charagh-e-Delhi
22. Hazrat Khwaja Kamaal-ud-din
23. Hazrat Khwaja Siraaj-ud-din
24. Hazrat Khwaja I’lm-ud-din
25. Hazrat Khwaja Mehmood Rajan
26. Hazrat Khwaja Jamaal-ud-din Juman
27. Hazrat Khwaja Jamaal-ud-din Hasan Muhammad Nuri
28. Hazrat Khwaja Qutb Shams-ud-din Muhammad
29. Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad
30. Hazrat Khwaja Kaleem Ullah Jahanabadi
31. Hazrat Khwaja Nizaam-ud-din Aurongabadi
32. Hazrat Khwaja Fakhr-ud-din
33. Hazrat Khwaja Nur Muhammad Mahaarvi
34. Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Sulaiman Taunsvi
35. Hazrat Khwaja Shams-ud-din Sialvi
36. Hazrat Khwaja Pir Meher Ali Shah

As a supporter of Wahdat-ul-Wujood
Pir Meher Ali Shah Sahib was a supporter of Ibn Arabi's ideology of Wahdat-ul-Wujood but he made a distinction between the creation and the creator (as did Ibn Arabi). He wrote a masterpiece explaining the Unity of Being doctrine of Hazrat Ibn Arabi.

Wahdat-ul-Wujood and the Quran
Before the evidence is presented, readers must note that evidence is of two guides:

* Explicit
* Indirect

The words, Wahdat-ul-Wujood, will not be in the quotations but the doctrine which these words express will be in the quoted verses.

* Sura An-Nur (Ayat an-Nur) {24} Verse 35: "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth."
* Sura Al-Baqara {2} Verse 115: "To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Pervading, all-Knowing."
* Sura Al-Hadid {57} Verse 3: "He is the First (awal) and the Last (akhir), the Evident {zahir} and the Immanent {batin}: and He has full knowledge of all things."

The creation of Allah exists and the creation is not part of Allah nor Allah is part of creation because Allah says "lysaka misli shai" {there is nothing like Him}.

Allah's existence is absolute on who's existence all the creation exists and the real {haqiqi} existence is of Allah's.

If the '{haqiqi} existence' is defined as:

"Qul hu'wAllahu Aa'had, Allahu Samad, Lamya lid Wa lamyu'lad, Wa lamyaqulla'hu kufu'wan ahad. Hu wal aw'walu wal'akhiru wa'zahiru wal'batinu wahuwa bikulli shayin AAaleemun. Alhamdu lillahi rabil alameen ..."

Then its apparent that nothing exists as such, thus nothing fulfils the criteria being in existence other than Allah's Wahdat, Allah's Ahadi'at, (Allah's Unity, One'ness), and only He is the one who exists {as defined above} and all existence of creation does not exist when it is compared to Allah's existence {as defined above}.

Wahdat-ul-Wujood is the realisation of tawhid on a level which neither can be discovered by reading texts nor understood by listening to speeches, its source of knowledge is Shahood (witnessing) of tawhid, being witness to the One's One'ness. And when Witnessing His Holy Being, there can be no trace of creation in Him nor around Him, neither He co-exists in creation, nor creation co-exists with Him. One who witness's the Glory of Allah, He witness's Him as if there is no other creation in existence, cause Allah's Existence is Limitless, and its not possible to conceive when Witnessing the Limit-less (Allah) that Limited (Creation) ones do exist as well.

Seikh Muhi'ud Din Ibn Arabi rahimullah alayhi tallah, explained his spiritual journey, which lead to this realisation, and the realisation was based on Shahood, hence he described it in terms as he saw it.

The ignorant ones, of little intellectual ability, ones who have no knowledge of deen, neither those who have understood the Qur'anic verses have objected to this doctrine of Wahdat-ul-Wujood, but their objection demonstrates their lack of understanding tawhid e Wahdat-ul-Wujood.

Hazrat Molana Ali Muhammad Was The great Sufi And he was appointed as kaliph by qibla pir Mehr Ali Shah RH in Kalran Abbaspur Poonch.