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in Islamabad). At that time, this area was known to be a dangerous place (locally known as Chorpur (place of thieves) due to its reputation as full of bandits and killers who used to attack and rob trade caravans passing through this area headed towards Central Asian countries. Over time, he
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celebration, when the death anniversary of the saint was commemorated and which was attended by hundreds of thousands of people each year (in one particularly populous year, the attendance is said to have been 1.2 million people).
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Bari Imam was renowned in his own life for being an ascetic who subjected himself to great self-humiliation in the public sphere, "living among the pariahs and consciously exposing himself to the disdain of the people."
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is considered to be his Birthplace. His father, Syed Mehmood Shah, was a farmer. So he helped his father with farming and with his herd of animals until he was 12 years old. Then Bari Imam was sent to
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According to some sources, he later married and had one daughter, though both his wife and daughter are said to have died prematurely. After their deaths, Bari Imam began wandering the forests of the
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This table only includes figures venerated traditionally by the majority of Muslims in the Subcontinent, whence persons honored exclusively by particular modern movements are not included.
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Because Bari Imam Sarkar did not transmit any of his doctrines to writing; as such, it may be rightly presumed that he bequeathed all of his teachings orally.
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On 27 May 2005, a suicide attack took place at the shrine of Imam Bari in which 20 people died and almost 70 were injured.
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succeeded in teaching these people about love, peace and harmony. Later Shah Abdul Latif came to be known as "Bari Imam".
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A silver-mirrored shrine of Bari Imam is located in Noorpur Shahan in Islamabad. It was originally built by the
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The life of Bari Imam is known essentially through oral tradition and hagiographical booklets and celebrated in
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After his return to the Indian subcontinent, he then decided to settle in the Noorpur Shahan area (now
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Bari Imam was eight years old when his family migrated from Karsal in Chakwal District to what is now
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Shah Abdul Latif also went to Central Asian states of that period and to the Islamic holy cities of
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who had earlier provided the saint with milk during his ten years of spiritual seclusion.
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order of the Islamic spirituality and within this order is addressed as the Master (
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Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Published 28 July 2002, Retrieved 5 January 2021
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The Nation (newspaper), Published 20 May 2015, Retrieved 5 January 2021
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Imam Ul Fuqra, Shehnsha E Behro Bar, Hazrat, Sayyid, Imam, Pak Bari,
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Tazkar-e-Khanwad-e-Hazrat Ishaan, p. 281 and Chapter on Bari Imam
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Punjab District Gazetteers: Rawalpindi District with Maps 1907
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ascetic. He is venerated as the patron saint of Islamabad,
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Additionally, 1509: 1380:Syed Shah Murid Ali al-Qadri al-Jilani 1033:Shah Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani 977:Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri 306:songs of Indian and Pakistani Sufism. 43:A popular local depiction of Barī Imām 1537:17th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 774: 641:"Urs of Bari Imam to start from 22nd" 568: 564: 562: 560: 558: 556: 554: 552: 16:17th-century Sufi ascetic from Punjab 464: 430:The shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad 663: 13: 549: 313:The forests where Bari Imam roamed 14: 1598: 1587:17th-century Mughal Empire people 731: 516:The Cambridge Companion to Sufism 380:to learn about Islam and perform 246:Peer Syed Abdul Latif Kazmi Qadri 1234:Makhdoom Shah Muhammad Munim Pak 579:; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; 37: 1390:Khwaja Abdul Ghaffar Naqshbandi 1280:Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari 1259:Syed Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi 702: 689: 647:. 10 April 2007. 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Mughal Empire
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Islamabad
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Patronage
Pothohar Plateau
Qadiriyya
Mir Miran
Hazrat Ishaans
Yusuf
12th Imam
Qutbs
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