Career
Shah was a disciple and Khalifa of Shams-ud-din in the Silsila-e-Chishtia Nizamiyah. His biography, Meher-e-Muneer, records that he was also made a khalifa by Haji Imdadullah Muhaajir Makki, when he visited the latter in Mecca. Shah was a supporter of Ibn Arabi"s ideology of Wahdat-ul-Wujood but he made a distinction between the creation and the creator (as did Ibn Arabi).
Like his comrade Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad, he was an authority on Ibn Arabi and his 37-volume masterpiece The Meccan Illuminations (First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya).
In 1933, Shah was absorbed in his meditation and mystic trances. That year the philosopher Muhammad Iqbal had to give a lecture at Cambridge University on Ibn Arabi"s concept of Space and Time.
He wrote a letter to the Shah stating that now there was nobody in all of Hindustan whom he could consult in this matter, and requesting him to tell about Ibn Arabi"s work. The Shah however, due to his meditation and bad health, could not reply.