His blessed family name (Kuniat) is “Abul Hasan”. From time to time Sufi scholars have emphasised the fact that Hazrat Syed Ali Hujwiri was the only child of his parents and he himself didn’t have any children

Hazrat Ali Hajveri (Data Ganj Bakhsh)
He was born in 400 A.H. in Ghazni (Afghanistan). He belonged to a Syed family (descendant of the Holy Prophet). He completed his earlier education in Ghazni by memorizing the Holy Quran. Then he studied Arabic, Farsi, Hadith, Fiqh, Philosophy etc. At that time Ghazni was the center of education in Central Asia, and it was the realm of the famous Afghan ruler Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi. Read the rest of this entry »

After completing his initial Islamic education in Ghazna at the hands of greatest Sufi Saints and Awliya Allah he decided to travel far and wide across many Islamic countries such as Syria to Turkistan, Tus, Uzkand, Mihna, Merv, Samarkand, Iraq, India, and Afghanistan to gain further spiritual knowledge and meet various Sufi Saints. He also visited the holy lands of Makkah and Read the rest of this entry »