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Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi & KRIC
Knowledge Research & Innovation Center (KRIC), Pakistan is the vision of a great Sufi of today’s modern era, Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi, a distinguished Sufi of Warsi Sufi Order, who envisioned the totality of Spiritual, Intellectual and Evident Knowledge.
Warsi Sufi Order was founded by Hafiz Syed Waris Ali Shah (R.A.), who belonged to the Qadiriya schools of Tassawaf. He went to Mecca for pilgrimage many times and also visited Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq (Mesopotamia), Iran, Turkey, Russia, Rome, France, Belgium, and Germany. During his travels in Europe, he visited then Sultan Abdul Majid of Turkey and remained as a guest of Prince Otto Von Bismarck in Berlin. He also travelled to England and had a direct audience with Queen Victoria.
Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi, a celebrated Sufi of Warsi Sufi Order, a Pakistani Muslim Sufi of 20th century, a legend who became equally renowned amongst the diversity of commons as well as intellectuals, religious and learned zones. His diversified personality with blessed abilities; uniformly understood the aspirations of the common man, ambitions of an intellectual person as well as the aspiration of a spirituality seeker, in their respective linguistic, intellectual, artistic and cultural manifestations, spanning over different spatial and temporal zones.
Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi’s actual name is Dr. Muhammad Jan Qureshi. He was born in a respectable, religious and distinguished business family; genealogically descendant of Hashmi linage. On partition of Indo-Pak, his family settled in Haripur; a city of Hazara, Pakistan. After completing his worldly education, he started practicing in his Dental Clinic in Haripur, Pakistan, simultaneously he was spiritually groomed in Warsi Sufi Order by his spiritual mentor Baba Abdullah Jan Warsi. On completion of his spiritual edification, he was awarded title of Shah and was famously known as Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi.
The Sufi Saint was a firm believer of his ancestor's religion and possessed sterling qualities. He was renowned for his piety, enormous warmth of love and affection for people particularly poor/ weak and equal treating to diverse creeds and nationalities. Above all he was a stern believer and practitioner of not to stretch hands before anyone except ALLAH, and strictly advocated his disciples to adhere to this firmly. He devoted his entire life in creative transformative balance between religiosity, spirituality and deeds insisting that these should be practiced within the boundaries laid down by Islam. He believed that this balance is the core of Islam, which has gradually become moribund and forgotten. The scattered remains of which, if at all existed in preaching, yet were not put to practice, thus ceasing the wisdom in the hearts. He made his disciples remember this ‘Forgotten Truth’ and enriched possessed concepts of Divine Reality, Truth, Purification, Knowledge, Wisdom and Love. Dr. Muhammad Jan Shah Warsi decisively emphasized on manifestation in personal deeds.
He believed in foundational pedestal of Divine Love i.e., remembrance of ALLAH and incompatible love for the prophet Muhammad صَلَّ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ سَلَّمَ, amongst humans. Thereafter, the universal meaning of love to infuse the social world with brotherhood and divinity, to restructure the social matrix, as mercy and gentleness wins the hearts and not the wrath, severity and majesty. The legendry Sufi by educating and deepening the spiritual concerns of his disciples, accentuated the importance of simultaneous connection to both spiritual and worldly domains yet with absolute balance amongst them which he expressed in his words as;
“Body attached to materiality and heart anchored to the beloved (ALLAH)
while essence rests in preserving the just-right equilibrium with purity"
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