Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi

Pir Khwaja Hameeduddin Sialvi was a Pakistani spiritual leader and politician who was the sajjadah nasheen of Sial Sharif shrine in Sargodha, Pakistan. Broadly speaking, his family is related to the Barelvi school of thought.
He was a member of Senate of Pakistan on the ticket of PML (N) from March 1988 to March 1991 and again from March 1991 to March 1994.

History

He was born in 1936 to a religious family of Sial Sharif and received his early education from Darul-Uloom-Zia-Shamsul-Islam. Later, he started preaching and teaching at Darul-Uloom-Deenia, which he continued for the next two decades.

Death

He died on 17 September 2020. Thousands of his followers attended the funeral prayers.