| Shah Ali Baghdadi (R) a saint
of the 15th century. Shah Ali came from Baghdad and his tomb is at Mirpur
on the outskirts of Dhaka. His father, Syed Fakhruddin Razi, was a Hafiz,
a Mufassir, a Muhaddith and a Mufti.
Shah Ali came to Delhi with some disciples in 813/14
AH (1412 AD) at the age of twenty. In Delhi he married a lady of the Syed
dynasty. By this lady he had a son named Shah Uthman. He left Delhi and
travelled to the village of Kasba Girdah in Fatehabad Pargana (Faridpur
district) which had been conquered by the Muslims during the reign of
jalaluddin
muhammad shah. Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah granted him
12,000 bighas of land. At Girdah he converted a large number of Hindus
to Islam. From Faridpur he came to Dhaka where he became a disciple of
Shah Bahar (R) of the Chistia order. Here also he converted many people.
He died at Mirpur at the age of about one hundred years.
[Mosharraf Hussain Bhuiyan] |
