Background
His father"s name was Qurban Ali Shah whose tomb too is located in Dewa.
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Career
He travelled widely in the west and admitted people to his spiritual order. His shrine is situated at Dewa, India. Father
Haji Waris Ali Shah at a very early age showed an extraordinary inclination for a religious life: even in his extreme boyhood, he was regarded as amazingly proficient in his knowledge and practice of religion.
Social engagements
He went to Mecca for pilgrimage many times.
During his extensive travels in Europe, he visited the Sultan of Turkey and Bismarck of Berlin. He also travelled to England and had an audience with Queen Victoria.
Death
He died on 13 Muharram 1323 Animal Husbandry (6 April 1905 Civil Engineering). He was initiated in the traditional Chishtiyya, but he adopted more liberal view and permitted his followers to remain in their own religion.
When he was a small boy, Waris Ali attached himself to Haji Khadim Ali Shah, a sufi dervish of Golaganj, Lucknow, and remained with him until his death in 1832-1833 when Waris Ali was 16 years old.
He had many prominent followers from several faiths. Shaiq Khuda Bakhsh. Mushir Husain Kidwai, Gadia. Thakur Pancham Singh.
Zamindar Dt.
Mainpuri. Raja Udyat Narayan Sing (Suratgunj, Oudh). Baboo Moti Misser (Bhagalpu).
Thakur Grur Mohan Singh, Zamindar (Bhagalpur). Hazrat Baba Sufi Syed Diwana Shah Warsi(Research Associate) (Jagatdal,West Bengal).
Sadaf Jabbar Fazihat.
Shah Abdul Ad Shah. Maulana Mohammad Shah. Mustaqim Shah. Haji Waris Ali Shah was the Pir of Mushir Husain Kidwai of Gadia, a zamindar, barrister and pan-Islamist politician from Barabanki.
He collected the sayings of his spiritual guide Malfūzāt-i-Hāji Wāris "Ali Shāh.
His book, Tohmat-ul-Asfiya, is the biography of Waris Ali Shah. An urs, or death anniversary, locally known as Dewa mela is observed in October–November. lieutenant is said that this fair was started by Haji Waris Ali Shah in memory of his father, Qurban Ali Shah.
