Zaheen Shah Taji


Baba Zaheen Shah Yousufi Taji, born Muhammad Tuaseen, was a Pakistani Sufi Urdu poet, philosopher and scholar.

Biography

He was born in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, British India. He was in the direct lineage of the Islamic Caliph Umar Farooq and was adapted in Chishtia he was also part of family of Great sufi Saint Khawaja Hameed uddin Nagori who adopt order of Sufism by Syed Muhammad Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri. Zaheen Shah Taji was the disciple of Baba Yousuf Shah Taji, who was disciple of Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur.
His maternal grandson was Mazhar Ali, one of the most important actors on Pakistan television during the 1980s and the 1990s.

Literary skill

He has written many books and Ghazals in Urdu language while he knew Persian, Arabic, English and Hindi languages as well. He used Zaheen as a pen name in his poetry.

Works and influence

Zaheen Shah Baba translated two important works of Ibn Arabi Fusus-ul-Hukm and Fatuhat al-Makiyyah and also translated Al-Hallaj's Kitab-ut-Tawaseen in Urdu amongst many other books in Urdu and Persian the most prominent being the Taj-ul-Auliya Foundation.