LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif formally inaugurated on Friday the ceremonies of 968th Urs of Hazrat Ali Hajveri, commonly known as Data Ganj Bukhsh, at his shrine located in the main city area.
A large of devotees and visitors from across the world converge to Data Darbar to pay respect at the holy shrine of the religious saint.
The Urs celebrations will continue for three days till January 15

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…)