Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh writes in Kashf al-Mahjub on page 172 that ?I will only mention the names of individual Sufis and leading spiritualists who have lived in my time or are still alive, excluding the formalists (ahle-I rusum)?.

Sufis in Ghazna

Hazrat Abul Fadl bin al-Asad, Hazrat Ismail al-Shashi, Hazrat Sheikh Salar-I Tabari, Hazrat Skeikh Abu Abdullah (more…)

There have been many different saying about his death date, and different scholars have stated different dates. Some have stated that he died in 445 h, Darashiku, the author writes in Safina-tul-Awliya states in between 465-466 h and Prof. Nicholson states that he may have died in between 465-469 h. Even after the confusion was his exact death date we have one factor for sure that his death was  in 5^th century Hijri. When he arrived in Lahore, he build a mosque and (more…)

During the time of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh there were not established educational institutes like we have in modern times. Mosques used to teach Quran Majeed reading and memorising. It was very hard for many people to study Islamic knowledge at those times due to many problems.  Many students used to travel far to gain valuable Islamic knowledge at the feet of pious and sufi scholars. (more…)