Portrait of Hazrat Syed Inayat Ali Shah Zia Jaffry (R.A.)

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Syed Inayat Ali Shah
Zia Jaffry (R.A.)

رحمة الله عليه

Discover the legacy of a Sufi saint of Peshawar who inspired countless hearts — his teachings of love and humility, his poetry, and the living Darbar-e-Alia Qaderia Ziaeya that continues his path.

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Qalaam-e-Zia Jaffry

ضیا تیرا غبارِ تن جو فرشِ بوترابؔ ہو
یہ ذرا آفتاب ہو یہ خاک ماہتاب ہو

Zia, tera ghubār-e-tan jo farsh-e-Bū-Turāb ho —
ye zarra āftāb ho, ye khāk māhtāb ho.

A humble prayer: that the dust of the body, laid as a floor before the door of Ali (Bū-Turāb), might be so blessed that a mere speck becomes a sun, and the dust itself, a moon.

From his kalaam · compiled in “Sawaan-e-Hayat o Tadween-e-Kalaam”

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His complete story and collected poetry — “Sawaan-e-Hayat o Tadween-e-Kalaam”, compiled by his granddaughter Syeda Ume Laila Jaffry — is now readable online in full: 246 pages of biography and verse in Urdu and Persian.

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Silsila orders

99

Names of Allah

114

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Peshawar

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